Collaborative Research: A field and laboratory study of the melting processes of icebergs in a Greenland fjord
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

1. Claudia Cenedese($766,712), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Fiammetta Straneo($425,434), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
3. Hanumant Singh($43,070), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Ocean And Climate, Ambient Stratification, Climate Models, Current Parameterizations, Ice Sheets, Iceberg Melt, Iceberg Motion, Iceberg Parameterizations, Laboratory Experiments, Melt Water, Model-based Predictions, Sheared Flow, Sheared Flows, Stratified Ocean, Strongly Affected, Circulation, Complex, Discharge, Distribution, Field, Greenland, Has, Icebergs, Mass, Media, Melting, Model-based, Observations, Package, Regional, Rise, Shown, Surface, Vehicle, Video.

Circulation of the Ross Gyre
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

1. Kevin Speer($1,121,679), Florida State University, Tallahassee
Key terms: Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Circumpolar Deep Water, Global Overturning Circulation, Large-scale Gyre Circulation, Eddy Fluxes, Large-scale Gyre, Ross Gyre, Southern Ocean, ACC, Act, Advection, Analyses, Analysis, Australia, CDW, Characteristics, Enhance, Exchange, Float, Floats, Hydrographic, Hydrography, Knowledge, Main, Margin, Net, Processes, Program, Strongly, Structure, Transport, Western.

The Cost of A New Fur Coat: Interactions between Molt and Reproduction in Weddell Seals
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

1. Michelle R Shero($1,249,867), University of Alaska Anchorage Campus, Anchorage
Key terms: Weddell Seals, Clhes, Conditions, Molt, Outcome, Population, Reproductive, Species, Timing, Unique.

Autonomous and Lagrangian Platforms and Sensors: A Scientific and Technical Review
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

1. Daniel Rudnick($135,612), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Alps Technologies, Autonomous Platforms, ALPS-II, Array, Available, Biogeochemical, Climate, Discussed, Floats, Gliders, Global, Meeting, Ocean, Participants, Range, Report, Sampling, Sensors, Turbulent, Various, Vehicles, Workshop.

Collaborative Research: the impact of symbiont-larval interactions on species distributions across southwestern Pacific hydrothermal vents
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2018; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Craig M Young($399,791), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
2. Roxanne Beinart($885,927), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
3. Shawn M Arellano($631,507), Western Washington University, Bellingham
Key terms: Free-living Symbiont, Host Animal, Hydrothermal Vent, Microbial Symbionts, Snail Species, Specific Symbionts, Symbiont Acquisition, Symbiont Populations, Alviniconcha, Animals, Arriving, Availability, Chemoautotrophic, Development, Ecological, Ecosystems, Educational, Environment, Free-living, Ifremeria, Investigate, Larvae, Larval, Microbes, Nutrition, Processes, Sequencing, Snails, Sorting, Structure, Survival, Timing, Vents, Via.

2018 Ocean Global Change Biology GRC/GRS
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2018; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Gretchen E Hofmann($30,350), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Ocean Global, Waterville Valley, Biological, Biology, Chair, Conference, Context, Directions, Evolutionary, Examine, Facilitate, Field, Focus, GRC, Gordon, Has, July, Marine, Meeting, Meetings, Oceanography, Opportunity, Rapidly, Share, Successful, Themes, Third.

Collaborative Research: Impact of the Amazon River Plume on Nitrogen Availability and Planktonic Food Web Dynamics in the Western Tropical North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Richard N Peterson($189,860), Coastal Carolina University, Conway
2. Joseph P Montoya($536,223), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
3. Ajit Subramaniam($612,576), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Amazon River Plume, Undergraduate And Graduate, Amazon Plume, Flow Season, Food Web, Nutrient Supply, Diazotroph, Diazotrophs, Distinct, Does, Education, Efforts, Field, Focused, Influenced, Interact, Interactions, Limitation, Nitrogen, Nutrients, Offshore, Phytoplankton, Plankton, Processes, Program, Promote, Region, Resulting, Secondary, Strong, Students, Upwelling, Waters, Zooplankton.

Collaborative Research: The tropicalization of Western Atlantic seagrass beds
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Justin Campbell($699,095), Smithsonian Institution, Washington
2. Kenneth L Heck($161,118), Marine Environmental Sciences Consortium, Dauphin Island
3. James Douglass($57,496), Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers
Key terms: Marine Sites, Abiotic, Collaboration, Ecological, Ecology, Effects, Experiment, Grazing, Light, Modeling, Network, Phenomenon, Quantify, Seagrass, Structure, Temperature, Tropical, Tropicalization, Via.

Microbial activity in the crustal deep biosphere
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Beth N Orcutt($541,778), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Crustal Deep Biosphere, De Fuca Ridge, Fuca Ridge Flank, Juan De Fuca, Low Energy, Microbial Activity, Ability, Challenge, Conditions, Cruise, Discoveries, Environment, Existing, Habitat, Information, Laboratory, Life, Microorganisms, Outreach, Paradox, Processes, Public, Rates, Single-cell, Situ, Subseafloor, Subsurface, Survive.

Collaborative Proposal: Selection and Genetic Succession in the Intertidal -- Population Genomics of Pisaster ochraceus During a Wasting Disease Outbreak and its Aftermath
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John P Wares($253,646), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
2. Michael N Dawson($790,773), University of California - Merced, Merced
3. Peter T Raimondi($238,859), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Star Wasting Disease, Susceptible Sea Stars, Candidate Loci, Disease Outbreaks, Genetic Consequences, Low Levels, Pisaster Ochraceus, Population Dynamics, Population Genomic, Abiotic, Advance, Analyses, Assess, Coastal, Describe, Exploring, Future, Geographic, Interplay, Large-scale, Long-term, Marine, Methods, Migration, Opportunity, Pacific, Pandemic, Populations, Potential, Processes, Recovery, Recruits, Resources, Rnaseq, SSWD, Selection, Species, Temperature.

Collaborative Research: Evaluating how abalone populations in the California Current are structured by the interplay of large-scale oceanographic forcing and nearshore variability
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Clifton B Woodson($278,985), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
2. Stephen G Monismith($959,921), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Extreme Oceanographic Conditions, Green And Pink, Baja California, California Current, Coastal Marine, Coastal Species, Coupled Biophysical, Dissolved Oxygen, Laboratory Experiments, Marine Ecosystems, Marine Species, Ocean Conditions, Pink Abalone, Population Dynamics, Safe Spaces, Acidification, Acidity, Advance, Affect, Affects, Driver, Drivers, Effects, Field, Fisheries, Frequency, Future, Insights, Intensity, Large-scale, Local, Management, Mexico, Multiple, Organisms, Performance, Populations, Resource, Temperature, Vulnerability.

Signature exometabolomes of Caribbean corals and influences on reef picoplankton
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Amy Apprill($719,440), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Corals And Octocorals, Organic Matter Released, Caribbean Reefs, Coral Exometabolomes, Coral Reefs, Coral Species, Diverse Stony, Reef Picoplankton, Stony Corals, Usvi Minority, Water Column, Abundance, Advance, Detailed, Ecology, Ecosystems, Examine, Growth, Has, Interactions, Microbiome, Time, Utilize.

Predicting the global location of heat tolerant corals: Palau patch reefs as a general model
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Stephen R Palumbi($505,443), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Heat Resistant Corals, Heat Tolerant Corals, Reef Building Corals, Coral Reefs, Heat Resistance, Heat Tolerance, Patch Reefs, Stress Tank, Common, Cooler, Designed, Experiments, Habitats, Low, Normal, Palau, Practical, Species, Temperature, Temperatures.

Collaborative Research: Mesozooplankton food webs in intermittent upwelling systems: An overlooked link in a productive ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert K Cowen($907,932), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Kelly Sutherland($345,846), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Eastern Boundary Currents, Northern California Current, Citizen Scientists, Food Web, Food Webs, Larval Fishes, Plankton Imagery, Plankton Portal, Spatial Distributions, Visitor Center, Dynamics, Global, HMSC, Interactions, Marine, Mesozooplankton, Net, Oregon, Public, Relative, Shifts, Species, Trophic, Upwelling, Zooplankton.

Collaborative Research: Shelfbreak frontal dynamics: mechanisms of upwelling, net community production, and ecological implications
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jefferson T Turner($461,615), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
2. Walker O Smith($420,394), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
3. Rachel Stanley($103,583), Wellesley College, Wellesley Hills
4. Weifeng Zhang($2,093,718), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Continental Shelf, Flow Cytometry, Nutrient Supply, Phytoplankton Biomass, Pioneer Array, Shelf Break, Trophic Levels, Analysis, Broad, Coastal, Context, Coupled, Ecosystem, Enhanced, Enhancement, Frontal, Grazing, Has, IFCB, Imaging, Importance, Knowledge, Means, Mechanisms, Microscopic, Model, Net, Observations, Physical-biological, Primary, Productivity, Resolution, Upwelling, VPR, Zooplankton.

LTER: Resilience in the Environmental Mosaic of the Northern Gulf of Alaska (NGA) Shelf Ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Seth L Danielson($6,896,833), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Lower Trophic Level, Short And Long-term, Highly Productive, Hydrologic Cycle, Long-term Climate, Lter Network, Nga Lter, Spring Bloom, Activities, Alaska, Biome, Component, Ecosystem, Environmental, Field, Focus, History, Leading, Leveraging, Management, Marine, Mechanisms, Modeling, Observational, Observations, Organisms, Platform, Primary, Prior, Processes, Productivity, Program, Public, Resilience, Short-, Students, Summer, Time.

Collaborative Research: Context-dependency of top-down vs. bottom-up effects of herbivores on marine primary producers
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Matthew E Bracken($549,060), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
2. Luke P Miller($123,567), San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose
Key terms: Consumptive And Facilitative, Facilitative Effects, Primary Producers, Relative Importance, Approaches, Bottom-up, Experimental, Experiments, Herbivores, Marine, Methods, Nutrients, Outreach, Processes, Top-down.

EAGER: Novel genome-based method to measure taxon-specific phytoplankton growth rates in natural communities
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Nicolas C Van Oostende($299,097), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Biomass Accumulation, Cell Loss, Cpdna Replication, Existing Methods, Growth Rate, Individual Species, Natural Assemblages, Require Incubations, Applied, Basis, Biogeochemical, Complex, Contribute, Cultures, DNA, Determination, Determining, Dominate, EAGER, Eukaryotic, Experiments, Field, Grazing, Has, Importance, Information, Irep, Laboratory, Nutrient, Ocean, Oxygen, Phytoplankton, Potential, Rates, Sequence, Synechococcus, Taxon-specific, Turnover.

Unraveling the complex interactions of host-virus interactions on marine microbial physiology
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Shawn R Campagna($739,515), University of Tennessee Knoxville, Knoxville
Key terms: Influence Host Metabolism, Mixed Species Biofilms, Single And Mixed, Carbon Cycling, Host-virus Interactions, Lysogenic Viruses, Lysogenic-lytic Switch, Marine Microbial, Microbial Biofilm, Virus Activity, Viruses Influence, Chemical, Described, Ecologically, Function, Genome, Growth, Host-virus, Lyse, Lysogenic-lytic, Matrix, Mutants, Objectives, Phytoplankton, Quantify, Roseobacter, Structure, Training.

Quantifying Temperature Dependence In Growth & Grazing Rates of Planktonic Herbivores
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Susanne Menden-Deuer($893,886), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Growth And Grazing, Biogeochemical Models, Ecosystem Models, Global Ocean, Grazing Rates, Laboratory Experiments, Narragansett Bay, Physiological Rates, Plankton Grow, Protist Growth, Seasonal Temperature, Temperature Dependence, Temperature Gradients, Algorithms, Coastal, Continue, Critically, Delivers, Essential, Herbivorous, Heterotrophic, Knowledge, Low, Matter, Measure, Missing, Organic, Polar, Predation, Primary, Processes, Regions, Temperate, Temperatures, Transfer.

LTER: Linking Pelagic Community Structure with Ecosystem Dynamics and Production Regimes on the Changing Northeast US Shelf
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joel K Llopiz($6,975,886), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Planktonic Food Webs, Trophic Levels, Decadal-scale, Ecosystem, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Export, Fish, Limited, Long-term, Low, Management, Mechanisms, Models, NES, NES-LTER, Northeast, Observations, Pelagic, Predict, Region, Seasonal, Species, Structure, Time, Transfer, Trends, Waters.

Skeletal Records of Coral Reef Beaching in the Central Equatorial Pacific
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Anne Cohen($427,526), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Cep Reefs, Coral Reef, Coral Reefs, Historical Bleaching, Ocean Warming, Stress Signatures, Successful Outcome, Archived, Corals, Ecosystems, El, Episodes, Experiments, Productive, Remain, Resilience, Skeletal, Skeletons, Underway, Validate.

Collaborative Research: Effects of Changing Temperature on the Gulf of Alaska Ecosystem
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael A Litzow($55,229), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Affects Marine Ecosystems, Climate Affects Marine, Fisheries Management, No-analogue Climate, Nonstationary Relationships, North Pacific, Preliminary Analyses, Alaska, Atmospheric, Decades, Ecological, GOA, Gulf, Has, Markedly, Mode, Models, No-analogue, Ocean, Oscillation, Potential, Processes, Properties, SST, Statistical, Switch, Temperature, Tested, Time, Transform.

Protistan, prokaryotic, and viral processes at the San Pedro Ocean Time-series
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David A Caron($1,528,834), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Ecological Interactions, Gene Expression, Microbial Species, Analyses, Analysis, Bacteria, Detection, Diversity, Environmental, Local, Marine, Microbes, Pelagic, Processes, Protists, SPOT, Site, Viral, Viruses.

2018 Mesophotic Coral Reef Ecosystems Gordon Research Conference
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Michael P Lesser($30,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Coral Reef Ecosystems, Mesophotic Coral Reef, Shallow Coral Reefs, Structure And Function, Students And Post-doctoral, Coral Reefs, Graduate Students, Biologists, Conference, Critical, Ecologists, Extent, Field, Forum, GRC, Growing, Increasing, Interdisciplinary, MCE, Mces, Natural, Rapidly, Resilience, Stressors, Time, Unique, Variety, World.

The Role of Temperature in Regulating Herbivory and Algal Biomass in Upwelling Systems
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John F Bruno($733,602), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Standing Algal Biomass, Grazing Intensity, Primary Producers, Water Temperature, Herbivores, Measure, Metabolic, Metabolism, Nutrient, Populations, Regulated, Temperature-dependence, Training, Upwelling, Warmer.

Collaborative Research: A multidimensional approach to understanding microbial carbon cycling beneath the seafloor during cool hydrothermal circulation
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Julie A Huber($494,256), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Autotrophic And Heterotrophic, Particle-associated And Free-living, Biological Approaches, Carbon Cycling, Heterotrophic Metabolism, Mid-atlantic Ridge, Oceanic Crust, Subseafloor Biosphere, Aquifer, Balance, Characterize, Cool, Determined, Flowing, Fluid, Fluids, Fluxes, Geochemical, Global, Influence, Largest, Life, Microbial, Microbially-mediated, Mid-atlantic, Net, Oceans, Organic, Processes, Students, Volume.

Collaborative research: Variation in life history and connectivity as drivers of pathogen-host dynamics and genetic structure in a trans-hemispheric pathosystem
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Donald Behringer($423,412), University of Florida, Gainesville
2. Andrew S Kough($49,483), John G Shedd Aquarium, Chicago
3. Louis V Plough($586,206), University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences, Cambridge
Key terms: Crab And Virus, Field And Laboratory, Temperate And Tropical, Blue Crab, Blue Crabs, Crab Movement, Csrv1 Virus, Life History, Pathogenic Virus, Activity, Adult, Behavior, Biophysical, Connectivity, Dynamics, Environmental, Estimate, Experiments, Genetic, Genotypes, Infection, Investigate, Larval, Latitudes, Models, Overwintering, Pathosystem, Population, Range, Sequencing, Strategies, Virulence.

Effects of physical environmental conditions on the species distribution and composition of marine fish and invertebrates along the Texas coast
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Masami Fujiwara($208,801), Texas A&M AgriLife Research, College Station
Key terms: Atlantic And Pacific, Changing Environmental Conditions, Fish And Invertebrates, Local Environmental Conditions, Long-term Species Composition, Sea Surface Temperature, Undergraduate And Graduate, Long-term Species, Statistical Analyses, Texas Coast, Undergraduate Students, Analysis, Assess, Biological, Climate, Coastal, Distribution, Diversity, Effects, Findings, Fisheries, Gulf, Information, Knowledge, Management, Mentoring, Methods, Mexico, Models, Oceans, Organisms, Potential, Program, Projected, Resource, Shared, Unique.

EAGER: A Saturation Approach to Microzooplankton Grazing Rate Determination
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Nicole J Poulton($297,424), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
Key terms: Biological Oceanography, Natural Prey, Saturation Approach, Surrogate Prey, Experimental, Experiments, Global, Grazing, Growth, Has, Influence, Information, Microbial, Phytoplankton, Planktonic, Primary, Protists, Rate, Rates, Resulting.

Microbial interactions on particulate organic matter: from community structure to function
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Otto X Cordero Sanchez($412,000), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Key terms: Dynamics And Efficiency, Global Carbon Cycle, Marine Bacteria, Nutrient Hotspots, Organic Matter, Dissolved, Ecological, Frequently, Function, Interactions, Main, Microbial, Nutrients, Ocean, Processes, Rate, Species, Students, Turnover, Undergraduate.

Collaborative Research: Regulation of plankton and nutrient dynamics by hydrodynamics and profundal filter feeders
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Qian Liao($608,368), University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee
2. Cary Troy($483,562), Purdue University, West Lafayette
Key terms: Benthic Filter Feeders, Flow And Nutrient, Plankton And Nutrient, Boundary Layer, Energy Flow, Lake Michigan, Mussel Grazing, Numerical Models, Nutrient Cycling, Nutrient Dynamics, Quagga Mussels, Altered, Aquatic, Bottom, Carbon, Deep, Education, Hydrodynamics, Lakes, Loading, Management, Particle, Phosphorus, Phytoplankton, Processes, Profundal, Students, Unclear, Workshop.

The energetic assembly of biological communities: a test with deep-sea woodfalls
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Craig R McClain($747,825), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
Key terms: Rovsubmersible-deployed Wood Falls, Carbon Availability, Deep Sea, Precisely Manipulated, Rovsubmersible-deployed Wood, Accurate, Amount, Approach, Available, Biodiversity, Chemical, Climate, Ecological, Energetic, Energy, Examining, Experiencing, Global, Has, Marine, Multiple, Processes, Public, Rate, Reveal, Structure, Theories, Varying.

Collaborative Research: Orientation of elongate diatoms as a strategy for light harvesting
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Melissa Omand($318,001), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Aditya R Nayak($289,134), Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
Key terms: Horizontal Orientation, Hydrodynamic Environments, Light Capture, Phytoplankton Orientation, Situ Holographic, Analysis, Collected, Controlled, Elongate, Experiments, Field, Flows, Fluid, Has, Laboratory, Optics, Parameters, Primary, Shear.

Adjustment of western Pacific Ocean coral reefs to sea-level rise and ocean warming
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Robert van Woesik($586,229), Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne
Key terms: Coral Reefs, Economic Burden, Ocean Temperatures, Pacific Ocean, Sea Level, Sea Walls, Sea-level Rise, Temperature Gradient, Vertical Reef, Benthic, Capacity, Carbonate, Coastal, Contribution, Corals, Differences, Ecosystems, Eroders, Examine, Geographical, Growth, Island, Keeping, Kiribati, Land-use, Local, Model, Modern, Nations, Palau, Potential, Rates, Recently, Sea-level, Site, Space, Subjected, Training, Various, Vertically, Worldwide.

Aggregation of Marine Picoplankton
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Susanne Neuer($687,521), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Aggregation And Sinking, Biological Carbon Pump, Deep Ocean, Marine Phytoplankton, Marine Snow, Organic Carbon, Particulate Matter, Sunlit Zone, Undergraduate Students, Aggregates, Animals, Arizona, Bacteria, Based, Cells, Contribute, Dissolved, Enhanced, Export, Extremely, Food, Increase, Investigate, Laboratory, Live, Oceans, Organisms, Particles, Picocyanobacteria, Play, Serve, Shown, Synechococcus, TEP, Unique, Uptake, View, Was, Web.

Evolutionary Responses to Global Changes in Salinity and Temperature
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Carol E Lee($852,892), University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison
Key terms: Salinity And Temperature, Affinis Populations, Laboratory Selection, Population Genomic, Reduced Salinity, Selection Experiments, Wild Populations, Adaptation, Climate, Coastal, Copepod, Costs, Estuarine, Evolutionary, Examined, Fisheries, Food, Genes, Increase, Insights, Joint, Northern, Organisms, Signatures, Students.

Collaborative Research: Iron and phosphorus balanced limitation of nitrogen fixation in the oligotrophic ocean
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Mak A Saito($487,994), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Feixue Fu($998,344), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Iron And Phosphorus, Ocean Food Chains, Balanced Limitation, Nitrogen Fixers, Nitrogen-fixing Cyanobacteria, Phosphorus Limitation, Atlantic, Biomarkers, Experiments, Fieldwork, Indicators, Investigate, Ironphosphorus, Nitrogen-fixing, Potential, Preliminary, Relatively, Students, Supply, Time, USC.

Causes and consequences of hypoxia and pH impacts on zooplankton: Linking movement behavior to vertical distribution.
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John Mickett($911,830), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Oxygen And Ph, Seasonally Hypoxic Estuary, Individual Zooplankton, Low Oxygen, Low Ph, Water Column, Zooplankton Species, Analysis, Behavioral, Conditions, Deployed, Distributions, Environmental, Field, Mechanisms, Movements, Ocean, Population, Predators, Prey, Situ, Stresses, Students, Video.

Immunity to Community: Can Quantifying Immune Traits Inform Reef Community Structure?
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Erinn M Muller($44,690), Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota
2. Laura D Mydlarz($220,331), University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington
3. Marilyn Brandt($39,287), University of The Virgin Islands, Charlotte Amalie
Key terms: White Plague Disease, Coral Diseases, Coral Immunity, Coral Species, Disease Exposure, Disease Susceptibility, Disease Transmission, Immune Traits, Population Collapses, Predictive Model, Virgin Islands, Application, Approaches, Caribbean, Corals, Experiments, Exposing, Growth, Incorporates, Measured, Mortality, Probability, Quantify, Rates, Reef, Reefs, Scenarios, Structure, Students, Texas, Unknown.

Collaborative Research: Delineating The Microbial Diversity and Cross-domain Interactions in The Uncharted Subseafloor Lower Crust Using Meta-omics and Culturing Approaches
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jason B Sylvan($249,514), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. Frieder Klein($541,666), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Carbon And Energy, Lower Ocean Crust, Lower Oceanic Crust, Atlantis Bank, Energy Sources, Fluid Flow, Microbial Life, Active, Analyses, Analysis, Biogeochemical, Biosphere, Collected, Connections, Cycling, Deep, Domains, Environment, Evaluation, Expedition, Has, Insights, Marine, Martinez, Microbiology, Microbiota, Nutrient, Outreach, Preliminary, Processes, School, Seafloor, Students, Subsurface, Texas, Transform, Undergraduate, Vast.

Collaborative Research: Gene content, gene expression, and physiology in mesopelagic ammonia-oxidizing archaea
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alyson E Santoro($10,313), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Metagenomic And Metatranscriptomic, Cells Grown, Cn25 Cells, Cn25 Genome, Comparative Transcriptomics, Future Studies, Gene Expression, Greenhouse Gas, Metatranscriptomic Datasets, Mg1 Archaea, Carbon, Central, Chemical, Energy, Environment, Environmental, Existing, Genes, Knowledge, Marine, Mesopelagic, Metabolic, Microbes, Model, Nitrogen, Ocean, Oceans, Organisms, Physiological, Range, Respond, Sequence, Strategies, Transcriptional, Ubiquitous.

Collaborative Research: New Approaches to New Production
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Alyson E Santoro($101,545), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Ammonium And Urea, Upper Water Column, Coastal Waters, Dissolved Organic, N2 Fixation, Southern California, Substantial Source, Water Column, Agents, Conditions, Contribute, Definitions, Directly, Dynamics, Ecosystems, Has, Involved, Marine, Model, Nitrate, Nitrification, Nitrogen, Nutrient, Ocean, Populations, Predominant, Primary, Processes, Recycled, Regenerated, SIP, SPOT, Specifically, Uptake.

Collaborative Research - COSEE Florida: Water as Habitat
Award Effective Date: 12/09/2016; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

1. Richard A Tankersley($117,636), University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Cosee Florida, Florida Ocean, Indian River, Intellectual Merit, Ocean Scientists, Stem Education, Audiences, Centers, Communicate, Content, Contribute, Educators, Expand, Floridas, Habitat, Informal, Initiatives, Literacy, Marine, Network, Nodes, Opportunities, Outreach, Pierce, Programs, Public, Quality, Regional, Technology, Water, Workshops.

A Stochastic Approach to Representing Unresolved Mesoscales in Ocean Circulation Models
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: CR, Earth System Models

1. Ian G Grooms($577,715), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Global Ocean Models, Realistic Stochastic Parameterizations, Coarse Models, Eddy Field, Mesoscale Eddies, Mesoscale Eddy, Stochastic Model, Stochastic Models, Tracer Transports, Unresolved Scales, Accurate, Applications, Approach, CESM, Climate, Components, Computational, Construction, Degree, Developed, Directly, Dynamics, Eddy-permitting, Effects, Ensemble, Fields, Forecasting, Framework, Has, Long-term, Modeling, NCAR, OMWG, Require, Resolution, Significantly, Velocity, Version.

Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES PMT: Sources and Rates of Trace Element and Isotope Cycling Derived from the Radium Quartet
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2018; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Matthew A Charette($698,968), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Willard S Moore($112,953), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Ocean Boundaries, Alaska, Barium, GEOTRACES, Hydrothermal, Isotope, Isotopes, Marine, Measure, Processes, Ra-, Radium, Rate, Rates, Student, Trace, Via.

The role of heterotrophic bacteria in protecting cyanobacteria from hydrogen peroxide in coastal systems.
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Gregory J Dick($874,085), Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor
Key terms: Composition And Function, Structure And Function, Drinking Water, H2o2 Concentrations, H2o2 Decay, Hydrogen Peroxide, Lake Erie, Aquatic, Biological, Blooms, Chabs, Chemical, Closures, Coastal, Cyanobacterial, Experiments, Field, Gradients, HO, Helpers, Heterotrophic, Influence, Integrated, Interactions, Microbial, Natural, Organisms, Overall, Rates, Sampling, Sources, Students, Temporal, Underrepresented.

GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect: Measurement of chlorofluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Rana A Fine($528,175), University of Miami, Coral Gables
Key terms: Circulation Regimes, Geotraces Program, Tracer Ages, Biogeochemical, CFC, CFC-, Calculate, Concentrations, Gas, Hydrographic, Internal, Isotopes, Measure, Objectives, Ocean, Oxygen, Pacific, Processes, Rates, SF, Ventilation, Water.

Development of low Nitrogen:Phosphorus ratios in the euphotic zone - the Phosphorus side of the story
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Solange Duhamel($1,417,632), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Marine Ecosystems, Northern Gulf, Oceanographic Cruises, Phosphorus Retention, Plant Growth, Upper Ocean, Affect, Availability, Bioavailable, Compare, Declines, Develops, Experiments, Focus, Has, Importance, Mechanisms, Mexico, Microbiological, Nitrogen, Offshore, Potential, Processes, Quantify, Ratio, Relative, Removal, Surface, Teachers, Unique, Water.

Trace Element Organic Speciation along the US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Daniel J Repeta($639,828), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Pacific Oligotrophic Gyre, Iron Dissolved, Measure Siderophores, Molecular Speciation, Organic Compounds, Organic Ligands, Cell, Characterize, Composition, Copper, Coupled, Datasets, Designed, Distribution, Environment, Equatorial, Extract, Features, HNLC, Live, Low, Mass, Metals, Microbes, Microbial, Nutrients, Ocean, PMT, Seawater, Subarctic, TE-L, Te-ls, Technology, Trace, Track.

Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES PMT: Investigating geochemical tracers of the Pacific nitrogen cycle and budget
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Daniel M Sigman($361,380), Princeton University, Princeton
2. Karen L Casciotti($420,655), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Alaska And Tahiti, Deep Ocean, Global Ocean, Nitrate Isotope, Nitrate Isotopes, Ocean Interior, Pacific Ocean, Surface Waters, Time Scales, Affect, Available, Biogeochemistry, Carbon, Cycle, Distribution, Effort, Future, GEOTRACES, Marine, Past, Princeton, Processes, Program, Section, Sets, Stanford, Subsurface, Supply, Workshop.

Groundwater sources of "new" N for benthic microalgal production in the South Atlantic Bight
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Alicia M Wilson($993,190), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Ammonium And Nitrate, Inorganic Nutrient Concentrations, Spatial And Temporal, Supporting Bma Biomass, Delta 15n, Fixed Nitrogen, Groundwater Flow, Groundwater Inputs, Hydrodynamic Exchange, Mid-shelf Region, Nitrate Nitrite, Phytoplankton Biomass, Primary Producers, Primary Source, Surficial Sediments, Water Column, Analysis, Collect, Collected, Composition, Depth, Divers, Document, Field, Highly, Mid-shelf, Nutrients, Observed, Orthophosphate, Porewater, Quantify, SAB, Sampling, Silicon, Sources, South, Students, Summer, Surface, Tracer, Transect.

U.S. GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect: Tracing Basin-scale Nutrient Cycling and Carbon Export with Dissolved and Particulate Barium-isotopic Distributions
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Tristan Horner($393,532), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Barium Cycling, Geotraces Program, Organic Matter, Pacific Ocean, Barite, Boundary, Carbon, Chemical, Collected, Conditions, Distributions, Formation, Global, Isotope, Isotopes, Isotopic, Nutrients, Oceans, Particulate, Processes, Regional, Trace.

Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect: Sources and Sinks of Neodymium Isotopes and Rare Earth Elements
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Chandranath Basak($443,776), Columbia University, New York
2. Brian A Haley($316,573), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Measure Nd Isotopes, Nd And Ree, Biological Productivity, Deep Waters, Meridional Dust, North Pacific, Water Column, Alaska, Chemical, Effects, GEOTRACES, Neodymium, Ocean, Oceans, PMT, Seawater, Sediments, Sources, Trace, Volcanic.

US GEOTRACES PMT: Cobalt Biogeochemical Cycling and Connections to Metalloenzymes in the Pacific Ocean
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Mak A Saito($347,686), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Oxygen Minimum Zones, Dissolved Cobalt, North Pacific, Pacific Ocean, Abundance, Biochemical, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Cellular, Chemical, Chemistry, Component, Cycles, Enzymes, Influence, Knowledge, Marine, Metalloenzymes, Metals, Micronutrients, Nutrients, Oceanic, Opportunity, PMT, Phytoplankton, Scavenging, Specific, Zinc.

Collaborative Research: U.S. GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect: Thorium-232, Thorium-231 and Protactinium-231 as tracers of trace element supply and removal
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Richard L Edwards($389,400), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
2. Robert F Anderson($699,602), Columbia University, New York
3. Christopher T Hayes($249,803), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Thorium-230 And Protactinium-231, Biological Productivity, Alaska, Analyzed, Chemical, Collected, Distributions, Dust, GEOTRACES, Iron, Isotopes, Naturally-occurring, Ocean, Oceans, Particulate, Processes, Quantify, Rate, Removal, Seawater, Sediments, Supply, Tahiti, Trace, Transect.

Collaborative Research: U.S. GEOTRACES PMT: Dissolved trace metal distributions and size partitioning
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Jessica N Fitzsimmons($464,498), Texas A&M University, College Station
2. Claire P Till($116,478), Humboldt State University Foundation, Arcata
Key terms: Pacific Ocean, Trace Metals, Concentrations, Cruise, Dissolved, Distribution, Distributions, Fluxes, GEOTRACES, Isotopes, Lead, Micron, Micronutrient, Poorly, Primary, Processes, Zonal.

US GEOTRACES PMT: Shipboard determination of key dissolved trace elements
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Mariko Hatta($438,766), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Cruise Track, Dissolved Fe, Global Ocean, Surface Waters, Analysis, Chemical, Concentrations, Current, Designed, Distribution, Dust, Essential, Expedition, GEOTRACES, Growth, Manganese, Mn, Oceanic, PMT, Processes, Region, Sampling, Shipboard, Students, Trace, Unique.

US GEOTRACES PMT: the geochemistry of size-fractionated suspended particles collected by in-situ filtration
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Phoebe J Lam($372,786), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Geotraces Pacific Meridional, Pacific Meridional Transect, Calcium Carbonate, Geotraces Program, Marine Particles, Particle Concentration, Particles Collected, Particulate Organic, Pmt Section, Size Distribution, Size-fractionated Particles, Biological, Composition, Cycling, Dissolved, Isotopes, Measure, Ocean, Process, Processes, Removal, Scavenging, Seawater, Silica, Size-fractionated, Teis, Trace, Um, Whereas.

US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect: Determination of the air-sea exchange of inorganic and methylated mercury in the anthropogenically-impacted and remote Pacific Ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert P Mason($285,106), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Ocean And Atmosphere, Geotraces Program, Methylated Hg, Surface Ocean, Allow, Amount, Analytical, Assess, Chemical, Collected, Concentrations, Cruise, Environmental, Gas, Human, Inorganic, Loss, Mehg, Mercury, Pacific, Retained.

Collaborative Research: Mechanisms and Controls of Nitrous Oxide Production in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Karen L Casciotti($358,576), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Bess B Ward($699,251), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Fixed Nitrogen Inventory, Gas And Ozone, Natural N2o Emissions, Oxygen Minimum Zones, Ozone Destroying Substance, Eastern Tropical, Environmental Conditions, Greenhouse Gas, Human Activities, Indirectly Affected, N2o Emissions, Natural N2o, Nitrous Oxide, Ocean Source, Oxygen Concentrations, Pacific Ocean, Stable Isotope, Atmosphere, Consumption, Critical, Denitrification, Derived, Distributions, Fluxes, Geographic, Global, Graduate, Half, Incubations, Intermediate, Involve, Involved, Isotopomer, Low, Main, Measured, Microbial, Microbiological, Nitrification, Nutrient, Omzs, Pathways, Processes, Regions, Regulation, Responsible, Third, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Lead-210 and Polonium-210 as tracers for scavenging and export: GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Section
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David C Kadko($244,646), Florida International University, Miami
2. J Kirk Cochran($597,480), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Half-life =, Pacific Ocean, Water Column, Carbon, Chemical, Distributions, GEOTRACES, Graduate, Half-life, Incorporate, Information, International, Isotopes, Lead-, Oceans, Pb-, Plans, Po-, Polonium-, Processes, Rates, Teis, Trace, Tracers.

Collaborative Research: NSFGEO-NERC: A Thermodynamic Chemical Speciation Model for the Oceans, Seas, and Estuaries
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Andrew G Dickson($481,481), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Heather Benway($18,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Chemical Speciation, Natural Waters, Ocean Acidification, Trace Metals, Accurate, Activities, Based, Composition, Create, Effects, Equations, Interactions, Methods, Model, Modelling, Oceanographers, Ph, Seawater, Solute, Solutions.

Quantifying Upper Ocean Export and Remineralization of Bioactive and Particle Reactive Trace Elements along the US GEOTRACES Tahiti to Alaska Transect
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ken O Buesseler($603,461), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Export And Remineralization, Particle Export, Remineralization Rates, Th-234 Flux, Time Scales, Biogenic, Depth, Distributions, Estimate, Estimates, Extend, GEOTRACES, Gradients, Half-lives, Hydrothermal, Involves, Isotopes, Measure, Net, Ocean, Oceans, Processes, Profiles, Sinking, Surface, Teis, Thorium, Thorium-, Trace, Upper, Upwelling, Vertical.

Collaborative Research: Assessing the role of compound-specific phosphorus hydrolase transformations in the marine phosphorus cycle
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Solange Duhamel($556,075), Columbia University, New York
2. Julia M Diaz($296,831), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Marine Microbial Nutrition, Specific Dop Compounds, Atlantic Ocean, Axenic Cultures, Carbon Fixation, Compound-specific Dop, Dissolved Organic, Dop Transformations, Greenhouse Gas, Marine Environment, Marine Microorganisms, Undergraduate Students, Biogeochemistry, Climate, Concentration, Contribution, Control, Critical, Cycling, Enzymatic, Enzymes, Field, Global, Hands-on, K-, Knowledge, Laboratory, Life, Molecules, Natural, Nutrient, Particular, Phosphate, Potential, Primary, Productivity, Pure, Relative, Species, Structure, Tools.

A mechanistic microbial underpinning for the size-reactivity continuum of dissolved organic carbon degradation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Carol Arnosti($660,522), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Hmw Dom Degradation, Hmw Substrate Uptake, Laboratory And Field, Low Molecular Weight, Aggregation Potential, Degradation Rates, Hmw Substrates, Lmw Dom, Marine Microbiology, Organic Matter, Size-reactivity Continuum, Specific Bacteria, Account, Aggregate, Aspects, Breakdown, Capabilities, Carbon, Demonstrated, External, Factors, Has, Hydrolysis, Investigate, Investigations, Lower, MPI, Mechanisms, Mechanistic, Microbial, Modes, North, Observations, Ocean, Particle-associated, Products, Range, Recently, Selfish, Size-reactivity, Students, Targeted, UNC.

Collaborative Research: RUI: Building a mechanistic understanding of water column chemistry alteration by kelp forests: emerging contributions of foundation species
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert B Dunbar($203,157), Stanford University, Stanford
2. Kerry J Nickols($572,711), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Kelp Forest Characteristics, Kelp Forest Habitats, Water Column Chemistry, Chemistry Alteration, Dissolved Oxygen, Giant Kelp, Kelp Forests, Monterey Bay, Seawater Chemistry, Surrounding Waters, Water Chemistry, Actively, Allow, Biogeochemistry, Biological, California, Carbon, Carbonate, Conditions, Contributions, Development, Ecological, Lead, Management, Ocean, Oceanographic, Phytoplankton, Pis, Sampling, Sites, Species, Strategies, Student, Students, Surface.

Collaborative Research: Combining Theory and Observations to Constrain Global Ocean Deoxygenation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Curtis Deutsch($334,044), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Matthew Long($336,494), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
3. Takamitsu Ito($281,607), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Ocean Heat Uptake, Skillfully Simulate Present-day, Dissolved Oxygen, Future Projections, Marine Ecosystems, Oxygen Content, Simulate Present-day, Affect, Available, Biochemical, Biogeochemical, Climate, Concentrations, Decadal, Decline, Deoxygenation, Distributions, Interannual, Linkages, Mechanistic, Model, Model-based, Modeling, Models, Observational, Observations, Processes, Regions, Simulations, Struggle, Trends.

The Biological Pump in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific: in situ measurements of Oxygen and Nitrate
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Curtis Deutsch($894,703), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Satellite-based And Gcm-based, Biological Pump, Carbon Export, Deep Ocean, Net Biological, Organic Matter, Oxygen Sensors, Profiling Floats, ANCP, Air-sea, Combine, Degrees, Deploy, Equatorial, Has, Model, Nitrate, Phytoplankton, Region, Surface.

Dissertations Symposium in Chemical Oceanography XXVI and XXVII
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Christopher I Measures($330,750), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Chemical Oceanographers, Academic, DISCO, Meeting, Oceanography, October, Opportunity, Peers, Pool, Symposia, Symposium, Th.

US GEOTRACES PMT: Rare earth elements, gallium, barium, and methane as indicators of internal cycling and input processes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Alan M Shiller($288,872), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Dust And Nutrient, Oxygen Minimum Zones, Removal And Internal, Biological Productivity, Chemical Distributions, Deep Waters, Global Climate, Hydrothermal Plumes, Hypothesized Mechanisms, Internal Cycling, Margin Sources, Mineral Dust, North Pacific, Nutrient Iron, Surface Ocean, Tracing Sources, Aluminum, Ba, Barium, Basin, Compared, Comparing, Conservative, Cruise, Delivery, Development, Dissolved, Environments, Equatorial, Ga, Gallium, Gradients, Input, Involved, Isotopes, Issues, Methane, Mixing, Non-conservative, Oceans, Opportunity, PMT, Pertinent, Radium, Rare, Rees, Subarctic, Tahiti, Trace, Tracers, Upwelling, Worlds, °.

Ecosystem-scale responses of coupled carbon and nutrient cycles to dramatic shifts in benthic communities: The Upper Great Lakes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Tedy Ozersky($625,448), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Michigan And Huron, Zebra And Quagga, Affect Sediment, Dreissenid-invaded Lakes, Lakes Michigan, Sediment Geochemistry, Affected, Altered, Aquarium, C-N-P, Carbon, Chemical, Chemistry, Diporeia, Dreissenid-invaded, Duluth, Ecology, Ecosystem, Ecosystems, Effects, Fluxes, Freshwater, Future, Invasion, Levels, Models, Mussels, Nutrient, Phosphorus, Processes, Quantify, Remain, Sediments, Shifts, Water.

Investigating the contribution of carotenoid degradation products to refractory dissolved organic matter (DOM)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Lihini I Aluwihare($695,127), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Storage, Cdp-enriched Dom, Chemical Reactions, Degradation Products, Laboratory Experiments, Long-term Storage, Petroleum Formation, Specific Chemical, Accumulation, Analytical, Antioxidants, Atmosphere, Carotenoid, Carotenoids, Cdp-enriched, Chemistry, Compounds, Detected, Dissolved, Has, Insights, Lifetime, Long-term, Marine, Methods, Ocean, Organic, Organisms, Pathways, Plants, Properties, Radiocarbon, Reservoir, Reservoirs, Seawater, Structures, Students, Timescale, Unique.

GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect: Measurement of Beryllium-7 as a Tracer of Upper Ocean Processes
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. David C Kadko($410,338), Florida International University, Miami
Key terms: Atmospheric Input, Water Column, Allows, Be-, Behavior, Biogeochemical, Chemical, Coupled, Deposition, Difficult, Distributions, GEOTRACES, International, Isotopes, Mixing, Observed, Ocean, Opportunity, Oxygen, Processes, Rate, Species, Students, Teis, Trace, Tracer, Unique.

Operation of a Community Marine-Atmospheric Sampling Facility at Tudor Hill, Bermuda
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Andrew J Peters($99,336), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Atmospheric Sampling, Continuous Meteorological, Freely Available, Marine Troposphere, Tudor Hill, Ability, Archived, BIOS, Bermuda, Chemistry, Collection, Exchange, External, Facility, Ocean, Site, Weekly.

Collaborative research: US GEOTRACES PMT: Trace-metal concentrations and stable isotopes in the North Pacific
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Timothy M Conway($457,711), University of South Florida, Tampa
2. Seth G John($440,188), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Carbon Cycling, Isotope Ratios, Pacific Ocean, Pmt Section, Trace Metal, Biogeochemical, Cd, Chemical, Competing, Cu, Distribution, Distributions, Enable, Expedition, Fe, Five, GEOTRACES, HNLC, Importance, Influence, International, Iron, Isotopes, Marine, Metals, Ni, Oceanic, Oceans, Particles, Processes, Regions, Seawater, Sources, Supplying, Zn.

US GEOTRACES PMT: hydrogen sulfide as a strong ligand affecting trace metal cycling
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Gregory A Cutter($393,513), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Hydrogen Sulfide, Hydrothermal Waters, Metal Sulfides, Sunlit Surface, Surface Waters, Trace Metal, Trace Metals, Attached, Biologically, Carbon, Chemical, Complexation, Dissolved, Essential, GEOTRACES, Graduate, Importance, Ions, Ligands, Low, Ocean, Pacific, Seawater, Toxic, Various.

Coupling of carbonate cycling and redox reactions in the bioturbated zone of marine sediments
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Qingzhi Zhu($906,000), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Advance Oceanographers', Bioturbation Zone, Laboratory Experiments, Marine Animals, Ocean Chemistry, Surface Sediment, Carbon, Chemical, Deep, Developed, Developing, Effects, Field, Images, Model, Past, Plan, Properties, Seafloor, Sensors, Variety.

Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES PMT: Pb and Cr isotopes
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Edward A Boyle($474,825), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
2. Robert D Rember($301,794), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Anthropogenic Pb, Coal Combustion, Cr3 Ion, Isotope Composition, Isotope Ratios, Isotopic Composition, Leaded Gasoline, North Pacific, Pacific Ocean, Pb Decreased, Sinking Particles, Activities, Atoms, Chromium, Concentration, Deep, Deposits, Geological, Has, Isotopes, Isotopically, Lighter, Mainly, Oxygen, Process, Reduced, Removed, Seawater, Sources, Surface, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Biogeochemical and Physical Conditioning of Sub-Antarctic Mode Water in the Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Dennis J McGillicuddy($1,032,925), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Nicholas R Bates($748,692), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
3. William M Balch($1,434,692), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
4. Matthew Long($478,529), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Nutrient And Trace, Carbonate Chemistry, Indian Ocean, Samw Formation, Trace Metal, Biological, Chemical, Chemically, Coccolithophores, Controls, Diatoms, Diversity, Eddies, Examine, Global, Growth, Models, Observations, Oceanic, Phytoplankton, Plus, Processes, Productivity, School, Shells, Sinks, Students, Subduction, Water, Waters.

Collaborative research: US GEOTRACES PMT: Measuring the d13C-DIC distribution and estimating organic matter export rates
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Paul D Quay($462,399), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Co2 Molecules Comprised, Respiration And Mixing, Pacific Ocean, Photosynthesis Reaction, Pmt Cruise, Pmt Section, Transfer Rate, Affect, Atmosphere, Atoms, Biological, Broader, Carbon, Concentration, Control, Cycling, Dc, Depth, Dissolved, Distribution, Distributions, Energy, GEOTRACES, Gas, Layer, Measure, Meridional, Oceans, Past, Plankton, Processes, Productive, Productivity, Seawater, Seward, Species, Surface, Tahiti, Tes, Trace.

Collaborative Research: Combining models and observations to constrain the marine iron cycle
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Thomas S Weber($221,390), University of Rochester, Rochester
2. Seth G John($197,957), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
3. Timothy DeVries($274,355), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
4. Francois Primeau($470,704), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Marine Fe Cycle, Computer Models, Graduate Students, Inverse Model, Aims, Allow, Amount, BEC, Climate, Critical, Cycling, Dissolved, Dramatically, Fluxes, Future, Inputs, Iron, Lead, Low-income, Minority, Nutrients, Ocean, Outreach, Phytoplankton, Poorly, Predictions, Processes, Program, Removed, Respond, Seawater, Synthesize, Trace, Training, Unique, Widely.

International conference support: Biological modifications of the seabed and sediment-water interactions
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Nils Volkenborn($10,000), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Coastal Regions, Biological, Bioturbation, Conference, Held, Ocean, Processes, Publicly, Seabed.

EAGER: Collaborative Research: Detection limit in marine nitrogen fixation measurements - Constraints of rates from the mesopelagic ocean
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Angelicque E White($53,699), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Pia Moisander($49,900), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
3. Julie Granger($47,418), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Experimental And Analytical, Comprehensive Molecular, Nitrogen Fixation, Ocean Waters, Activity, Growth, Mesopelagic, Method, Organisms, Rates, Specific, Via.

2017 Chemical Oceanography Gordon Research Conference: Synthesizing Multifaceted Data in Chemical Oceanography
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Karen L Casciotti($36,880), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Chemical Oceanography Gordon, Space And Time, Graduate Students, Marine Chemistry, Brings, Conference, Exchange, Field, Leading, Postdocs, Synthesizing.

Collaborative Research: Cryptic nitrogen cycling in the anoxic subterranean estuary
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Bongkeun Song($447,826), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Cryptic Nitrogen Cycle, Ammonium Oxidation, Anoxic Environments, Anoxic Nitrification, Coastal Environments, Coastal Groundwater, Coastal Ocean, Coupled Anoxic, Incubation Experiments, Nitrogen Delivery, Nitrogen Removal, Subterranean Estuary, Uconn Marine, Anammox, Contribution, Controls, Coupling, Denitrification, Dinitrogen, Estimate, Experience, Fixed, Focuses, Gas, Geochemical, Graduate, Has, Importance, Isotope, Microbial, Molecular, Nitrite, Outreach, Oxidants, Oxygen, Pathways, Potential, Process, Programs, Public, Reactions, Recruited, STE, Seawater, Tracer, Training, Undergraduate, VIMS, Virginia, Water, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Cryptic nitrogen cycling in the subterranean estuary
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Craig R Tobias($159,999), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Cryptic Nitrogen Cycle, Ammonium Oxidation, Anoxic Environments, Anoxic Nitrification, Coastal Environments, Coastal Groundwater, Coastal Ocean, Coupled Anoxic, Incubation Experiments, Nitrogen Delivery, Nitrogen Removal, Subterranean Estuary, Uconn Marine, Anammox, Contribution, Controls, Coupling, Denitrification, Dinitrogen, Estimate, Experience, Fixed, Focuses, Gas, Geochemical, Graduate, Has, Importance, Isotope, Microbial, Molecular, Nitrite, Outreach, Oxidants, Oxygen, Pathways, Potential, Process, Programs, Public, Reactions, Recruited, STE, Seawater, Tracer, Training, Undergraduate, VIMS, Virginia, Water, Zones.

The quality control of oceanic carbon dioxide measurements: preparation and distribution of reference materials
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Andrew G Dickson($499,969), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Dissolved Inorganic Carbon, Total Dissolved Inorganic, Carbon Dioxide, Global Ocean, Ocean Acidification, Oceanic Carbon, Quality Control, Total Alkalinity, Based, Field, International, Laboratory, Parameters, Ph, Reference, Seawater.

Collaborative Research: Investigation of paired uranium and chromium isotope behavior during authigenic metal uptake into continental margin sediments
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. James McManus($231,913), Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay
2. Silke Severmann($521,801), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Cr Isotope Compositions, Bottom Water, Detailed Investigationand8232, Environmental Conditions, Isotope Effects, Reconstruct Past, Sedimentary Sinks, Activities, Andof, Behavior, Chromium, Concentrations, Cycling, Directly, Introduce, Isotopes, Mass, Mechanism, Metal, Metals, Ocean, Oxygenation, Program, Proxies, Sediments, Students, Uptake, Uranium.

Collaborative Research: Direct Characterization of Adaptive Nutrient Stress Responses in the Sargasso Sea using Protein Biomarkers and a Biogeochemical AUV
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Michael Jakuba($565,683), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Rodney Johnson($59,474), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
3. John A Breier($310,114), The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Edinburg
Key terms: Marine Microbial, AUV, Additionally, Atlantic, Biogeochemical, Chemical, Clio, Cycles, Dataset, Deployment, Highly, Iron, Nutrient, Ocean, Pumping, Reactions, Specific, Unprecedented, Vertical, WHOI.

Collaborative Research: Iron Incorporation into Biogenic Silica
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ellery D Ingall($309,729), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Biogenic Silica, Iron Removal, X-ray Fluorescence, Analysis, Biological, Chemical, Concentration, Essential, Fe, Has, Importance, Marine, Ocean, Pathway, Processes, Seawater, Shells, Shown, Unquantified, X-ray.

Permanence of the recent expansions of the OMZ and denitrification regimes in the eastern tropical North Pacific
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Allan H Devol($177,093), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Dissolved Oxygen, Increased Rates, Oxygen Concentrations, Affect, Chemistry, Denitrification, ETNP, Nitrate, Nutrient, ODZ, Observed, Ocean, Odzs, Regions, Seasonality, Students, Time.

EAGER: Iron-Virus Interactions in the Ocean
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Kristen N Buck($299,295), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Organic Iron-binding Ligands, Bacterial Cell, Cell Surface, Dissolved Iron, Iron-binding Ligands, Marine Phage, Marine Phages, Organic Iron-binding, Organically Complexed, Phage Tails, Siderophore-bound Iron, Surface Ocean, Trojan Horse, Abundant, Biogeochemical, Colloidal, Compete, Culture, Cycling, Evidence, Experiments, Field, Following, Fraction, Has, Implications, Incorporated, Infection, Interactions, Laboratory-based, Lysis, Non-marine, Oceans, Phage-host, Phytoplankton, Portion, Receptors, Released, Remineralization, Seawater, Siderophore-bound, Viruses.

Iron uptake by marine bacteria: regulation and function of weak and strong siderophores
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Francois M Morel($494,988), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Weak And Strong, Strong Siderophores, Availability, Bacterial, Bind, Biochemical, Cellular, Chemical, Coordinated, Critical, Essential, Harveyi, Investigation, Iron, Marine, Molecules, Ocean, Oceanography, Varying.

Collaborative Research: Organic Alkalinity: Impacts of the [OTHER] Alkalinity on Estuary and Coastal Ocean Chemistry
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert H Byrne($335,606), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Acid-base Chemistry, Organic Alkalinity, Total Alkalinity, Acid-base, Buffering, Coastal, Dominant, Estuaries, Estuary, Factor, Fraction, John, Ocean, Pleasant, Pressure, River, Rivers, St.

Development of Spectrophotometric pH Measurement Capabilities in Estuaries
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Robert H Byrne($440,893), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Extremely Accurate Ph, Ph Indicator Dyes, Carbon Chemistry, Chemical Characterization, Co2 Dynamics, Inorganic Carbon, Measure Ph, Sulfonephthalein Indicator, Accuracy, Allow, Changing, Coastal, Conditions, Confidence, Estuarine, Extend, Highly, Mixed, Ocean, Oceanographers, Procedures, Purified, Quantify, Required, Rivers, Salinities, Salinity, Seawater, Strength.

Carbon Cycling in Carbonate-Dominated Benthic Ecosystems: Eddy Covariance Hydrogen Ion and Oxygen Fluxes
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Daniel C McCorkle($523,940), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Chemical Reactions, Seawater Chemistry, Acidification, Biogeochemical, Biological, Coastal, Critical, Difficult, ECHOES, Ecosystems, Exchange, Field, Fluxes, Measure, Methods, Models, Net, Ocean, Processes, Productive, Quantify, Seafloor, Sediments, Shallow, Unique.

Collaborative Research: Are all traps created equal? A multi-method assessment of the collection and detection of sinking particles in the ocean
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ken O Buesseler($242,413), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Margaret Estapa($137,493), Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs
Key terms: Woods Hole Oceanographic, Organic Carbon, Particle Flux, Surface Ocean, Collaboration, Compared, Cruise, Deep, Fluxes, Methods, Particles, Processes, Sinking, Skidmore, Th, Transport, Trap, Traps, Undergraduate.

Using Ocean Tritium/Helium-3 Observations to Quantify Thermocline Circulation and Biogeochemistry
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Chemical Oceanography

1. Ivan D Lima($759,390), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Ocean Tritiumhelium-3 Observations, North Atlantic, Ocean Circulation, Powerful Tracer, Analysis, Biogeochemical, Combined, Dataset, Decades, Diagnostic, Field, Has, Mixing, Model, Modeling, Nutrient, Oceanographic, Oceans, Oxygen, Radioactive, Rates, Released, Surface, Waters.

EAGER: Online Processing of Data in Large Facilities using National Advanced CyberInfrastructure
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Data Cyberinfrastructure

1. Manish Parashar($292,445), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
Key terms: Nsf Aci, Access, Bandwidth, Broad, Computational, Engineering, Facilities, High-performance, Infrastructure, Insights, Internet, Local, Manner, Nsf-funded, OOI, Potential, Process, Products, Resources, Typically, User, Users, Workflows, XSEDE.

Democratizing access to ocean observing technology with emerging low-cost embedded systems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Brian T Glazer($782,070), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Advancements, Affordable, Coastal, Components, Development, Expand, Low-cost, Marine, Oceanographic, Platform, Processes, Public, Sensors, Technology.

CAREER: Integration of rate-and-state friction and viscoelastic flow to model earthquake cycles on an oceanic transform fault
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Meng Wei($601,553), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Oceanic Transform Faults, San Andreas Fault, Well-mapped Oceanic Transform, Earthquake Cycle, Seismic Behavior, Well-mapped Oceanic, Activities, Apply, California, Dynamic, Earthquakes, Education, Friction, Graduate, Hazard, Interval, Layer, Model, Models, Natural, Next-generation, Numerical, Public, Repeat, School, Software, Student, Viscoelastic.

PPSR: Blending cultural and environmental resilience with contemporary technology: cutting-edge environmental sensor workshop for loko i`a
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Brian T Glazer($49,941), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Nuisance Flooding, Sea Level, Sensor Kits, Allow, Assemble, Coastal, Components, Crowd-sourced, DIY, Deployed, Developed, Hawaiian, Inundation, KUA, Local, Monitoring, Participants, Previously, Public, Sensors, Spatial, Water, Workshop.

CAREER: Small-scale plankton-aggregate dynamics and the biological pump: Integrating mathematical biology in research and education
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Jennifer Prairie($539,161), University of San Diego, San Diego
Key terms: Marine Snow Aggregates, Mathematical And Computational, Carbon Cycle, Computational Techniques, Investigate Interactions, Marine Aggregates, Planktonic Grazers, Sinking Particles, Surface Ocean, Undergraduate Students, Biological, Biology, Challenging, Copepods, Courses, Development, Direct, Educational, Export, Focused, Food, Imaging, Independent, Initiative, Observations, Play, Processes, Small-scale.

Molecular views of past changes in the North American Monsoon
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Jessica E Tierney($504,971), University of Arizona, Tucson
Key terms: Desert Museum, School Students, Sonoran Desert, ASDM, Climate, Junior, Monsoon, NAM, Paleoclimate, Past, Periods, Public, Waxes.

REU: From the intertidal to the deep ocean: Monterey Bay Regional Ocean Science REU Program
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Corey Garza($514,985), University Corporation at Monterey Bay, Seaside
Key terms: Monterey Bay, Analysis, CSUMB, Coastal, Development, Ecology, Marine, Ocean, Organizations, Program, Students, Themes, Topics, Vehicles.

CAREER: Comprehensive Chemical and Isotopic Characterization of Abiotic Organic Synthesis: An Experimental Study and Its Implication for Organic Formation in Hydrothermal Systems
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Qi Fu($516,575), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Abiotically Generated Organic, Generated Organic Compounds, Seafloor Hydrothermal Vents, Analytical Techniques, Chromatography-mass Spectrometry, Controlling Factors, Laboratory Experiments, Mass Spectrometry, Organic Molecules, Organic Synthesis, Reaction Mechanisms, Analyzed, Building, Carbon, Carried, Chemical, Chromatography-mass, Conditions, Education, Environments, Experimental, Fields, Focus, Formation, Gas, Generation, Houston, Hydrocarbons, Hydrogen, Involve, Isotope, Life, Liquid, Living, Mid-ocean, Natural, Origin, Process, Processes, Program, Reactor, Resulting, School, Similar, Species, State-of-the-art, Students, Temperatures.

REU Site: Coastal Research in Science and Technology (CREST) at UMass Boston
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Alan D Christian($344,900), University of Massachusetts Boston, Dorchester
Key terms: Anthropogenic Drivers, Coastal Ecosystems, Coastal Environmental, Development Activities, Boston, CREST, Diverse, Ecology, Experience, Habitat, Program, REU, Services, Social, Students.

REU Site: Coastal Marine Science Research Opportunities for Undergraduates at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Rochelle D Seitz($372,194), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: Coastal Ocean, Intern Program, Environmental, Independent, Marine, Oceanography, Receive, Students, Technical, VIMS.

REU Site: An Interdisciplinary Program at Old Dominion University for the Study of Metropolitan Coastal Environments and Communities
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Rodger Harvey($356,858), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Hampton Roads Region, Sea Level Rise, Chesapeake Bay, Coastal Resilience, Reu Program, Changing, Development, Effects, Environment, Flooding, Focus, Global, ODU, Regional, Students, Summer, Topics, Undergraduates, Urban.

Collaborative Research: Global Estimation of Lagrangian Characteristics of the Ocean Circulation
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Harper L Simmons($504,972), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Climate Models, Idealized Numerical, Lagrangian Characteristics, Model Output, Ocean Circulation, Spectral Slope, Spin Parameter, Active, Allowing, Analysis, Application, Approach, Arising, Available, Describe, Developed, Diffusivity, Directly, Errors, Features, Fluid, Global, Herein, Increasing, Parameters, Quantification, Quantities, Quasigeostrophy, Resolution, Spectrum, Surface, Techniques, Trajectories, Uncertainties.

REU Site: Scripps Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Jane L Teranes($1,319,310), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Undergraduate Students, Program, REU, Receive, Scripps.

REU Site: Ocean Sciences & Engineering at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution 2017-2018 Program
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Margaret K Tivey($333,049), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Wide Variety, Woods Hole, Center, Complete, Fellow, Fellows, Field, Marine, Opportunity, Program, REU, Receive, SSF, Students, Topics, WHOI.

CAREER: What sets the CO2 thermostat? Insights from the global geochemical cycles of Ca, Mg, and K
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. John A Higgins($819,200), Princeton University, Princeton
Key terms: Mg And Ca, Global Fluxes, Tap Water, Application, Chemical, Development, Earth, Educational, Inc, Investigate, Isles, Marine, Processes, Trenton.

REU Site: Exploration of marine biology on the Oregon coast
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Maya W Watts($361,260), University of Oregon Eugene, Eugene
Key terms: Biology, Ecology, Interactions, Invertebrate, Model, Oregon, Program, Student, Students, Total.

CAREER: Linking genetic diversity, population density, and disease prevalence in seagrass and oyster ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: EDUCATION/HUMAN RESOURCES,OCE

1. Randall Hughes($869,133), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Host Genetic Diversity, Marine Foundation Species, Transmission And Risk, Crassostrea Virginica, Disease Transmission, Field Experiments, Population Density, Reduces Disease, Restoration Practitioners, Zostera Marina, Amplification, Biology, Courses, Dilution, Diversity-density-disease, Effect, Effects, Efforts, Enhance, Examine, Experimental, Increasing, Knowledge, Mechanisms, Multiple, Outbreaks, Oyster, Restorations, Seagrass, Stakeholders, Students, Surveys, Undergraduate.

RAPID: Hurricane Maria Rapid Response: Field Observations of Post-storm Beach Recovery Dynamics in Rincon, Puerto Rico
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Sylvia Rodriguez-Abudo($93,712), University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Mayaguez
Key terms: Hydrodynamic And Morphodynamic, Natural Coastal Process, Post-storm Beach Recovery, Post-storm Beach, Post-storm Recovery, Puerto Rico, Attention, Bathymetric, Beaches, Capture, Dynamics, Erosion, Field, Future, Has, Hurricane, Information, Leading, Measure, Morphological, Nearshore, Processes, Profile, Profiles, Public, Remote, Rincon, Season, Sediment, Sensors, Storms, Students, Topographic.

Collaborative Research: Testing for local adaptation and responses to multiple stressors in populations of eastern oysters inhabiting a natural salinity gradient
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Morgan Kelly($553,703), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
2. Jennifer Pollack($259,364), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
Key terms: Temperature And Salinity, Altered Rainfall, Coastal Hydrology, Restoration Efforts, Climate, Critical, Effects, Future, GOM, Genomic, Gulf, Identifying, Integrate, Managers, Mexico, Ongoing, Oyster, Oysters, Physiological, Populations, Region, Species, Virginica, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Distinguishing the drivers of benthic foraminiferal faunal change to improve mechanistic interpretations of abrupt hypoxic events in the North Pacific
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Christina L Belanger($96,050), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Benthic Foraminiferal, Ecological Consequences, Geochemical Proxies, North Pacific, Organic Carbon, Abruptness, Activities, Climate, Conditions, Determining, Drivers, Dynamics, Education, Environmental, Faunal, Hypoxia, Hypoxic, Information, Low-oxygen, Methods, Multivariate, Oxygenation, Past, Public, Quantify, Range, Rates, Rely, Sediment, Severity, Sites, Students.

CAREER: Imaging the global patterns and drivers of the ocean's biological carbon pump
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Andrew M McDonnell($753,231), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Biological Carbon Pump, Global Ocean, Surface Ocean, Complex, Design, Examine, Oceanography, Particles, Public, Sea, Size, Studying, Transfer.

Ecology and biogeochemical impacts of viruses in marine oxygen minimum zones
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Jennifer R Brum($692,953), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Marine Omz Regions, Viral Metagenomes, Aims, Alter, Analysis, Assess, Biogeochemical, Cycling, Effects, Environmental, Functions, Global, Knowledge, Metabolic, Microbial, Mortality, Omzs, Oxygen, Perform, Processes, Specific, Students, Undergraduate, Viral-induced, Viruses, Zones.

Collaborative Research: Pre- and Syn-Rift Extension, Magmatism and Segmentation along the Eastern North American Margin
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2017; Program: EPSCoR Co-Funding

1. Lindsay L Worthington($154,689), University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
2. Maria Beatrice Magnani($144,035), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Key terms: Eastern North, Margin Segmentation, Rift Initiation, Seismic Dataset, Analysis, Atlantic, Breakup, CAMP, Character, Continent, Crust, Delineate, ENAM, Emplacement, Evolution, Extension, Hazard, Igneous, Landslide, Largest, Magmatism, Magnitude, Mature, Million, Pre-, Profiles, Rifting, Stages, Structure, Supercontinent, Transition.

Collaborative Proposal: EarthCube Integration: Pangeo: An Open Source Big Data Climate Science Platform
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: EarthCube

1. Joseph J Hamman($466,882), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Chiara Lepore($794,830), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Multidimensional Numeric Arrays, Analysis, Climate, Cloud, Dask, Datasets, ESM, Earthcube, Educational, Fields, Flexible, Geoscience, Has, Highly, Pangeo, Resulting, Simulations, Software, Structures, Task, Toolkit, Tools.

Collaborative Proposal: EarthCube Building Blocks: Planet Microbe: Enabling the discovery and integration of oceanographic 'omics, environmental and physiochemical data layers
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: EarthCube

1. Bonnie L Hurwitz($872,985), University of Arizona, Tucson
2. Edward F DeLong($126,948), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Available Via, Planet Microbe, Virtual Datasets, Algorithms, BCO-DMO, Broader, Centers, Collaborative, Comprised, Development, Discovery, Disparate, Efforts, Enable, Environmental, Existing, Geosciences, Global, Historical, Leverage, Microbes, Ocean, Oceanographic, Oceanography, Protocols, Prototype, Refine, Refined, Resource, Rich, School, Sequencing, Sets, Share, Students.

Collaborative Research: Measuring strain along the Aleutian subduction zone trench to better constrain seismic and tsunami hazard
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Spahr C Webb($108,572), Columbia University, New York
2. C. David Chadwell($873,313), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Seismic And Tsunami, Shumagin Seismic Gap, Beneath Alaska, Coupling Near, Gps Observations, Gps Sites, Kodiak Island, Overlying Plate, Pacific Plate, Shumagin Region, Strain Accumulation, Subduction Zone, Tsunami Hazard, Tsunami Risk, Accuracy, Aleutian, Apparent, Assessing, Cm, Constrain, Critical, Deformation, Earthquake, Established, Fault, GPS-A, Inferred, Interface, Little, Locked, Measure, Method, Motion, Northwestward, Obtained, Potential, Regions, Scenario, Sea, Seafloor, Trench, Unlocked.

Collaborative Proposal: Measuring strain along the Aleutian subduction zone trench to better constrain seismic and tsunami hazard
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Scott L Nooner($116,699), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: Seismic And Tsunami, Shumagin Seismic Gap, Beneath Alaska, Coupling Near, Gps Observations, Gps Sites, Kodiak Island, Overlying Plate, Pacific Plate, Shumagin Region, Strain Accumulation, Subduction Zone, Tsunami Hazard, Tsunami Risk, Accuracy, Aleutian, Apparent, Assessing, Cm, Constrain, Critical, Deformation, Earthquake, Established, Fault, GPS-A, Inferred, Interface, Little, Locked, Measure, Method, Motion, Northwestward, Obtained, Potential, Regions, Scenario, Sea, Seafloor, Trench, Unlocked.

Alaska Amphibious Community Seismic Experiment
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Geoffrey A Abers($1,744,764), Cornell University, Ithaca
Key terms: Earthquakes And Volcanic, Seismic And Volcanic, Alaskan Subduction, Aseismic Creep, Incoming Plate, Past Century, Subduction Zones, Volcanic Arc, Volcanic Eruptions, Volcanic Hazards, Along-strike, Array, Available, Beneath, Broad, Broadband, Coast, Collection, Controls, Cruise, Deep-water, Deployment, Design, Encourage, Experiment, Flow, Generated, Geophysical, Has, Hydration, Immediately, Join, Land, Local, Mantle, Megathrust, OBS, Obss, Offshore, Opportunity, Processes, Properties, Range, Region, Release, Seismometers, Selected, Sensors, Shallow, Spans, Strike, Structure, Students, Subducting, Systematic, TA, Was, World.

Collaborative Research: SISIE: South Island, New Zealand, Subduction Initiation Experiment
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Joann M Stock($167,529), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
2. Harm J Van Avendonk($764,544), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: California Institute, Incipient Subduction, Pacific Plates, Plate Tectonics, Subduction Initiation, Subduction Zone, Aspects, Australian, Boundary, Experiment, Forced, Forces, Integrated, Models, Region, Seismic, Selected, Self-sustaining, Slab, South, Surface, Target, Technology, Texas, Transition, Zealand, Zones.

Experimental investigations on the deformation behavior of sediment in the shallow region of the Nankai, North Sumatra, and Aleutian subduction zones
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Hiroko Kitajima($234,472), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Nankai Trough, Shallow Near-trench, Strain Accumulation, Subduction Zones, Behavior, Characterize, Conditions, Deformation, Experiments, Ntrench, Portion, Potential, Pressure, Sediment, Sediments, Slip, Sumatra, Temperature.

Evaluating mechanisms for the formation, propagation and evolution of volcanic rifts and margins
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Jean-Arthur L Olive($319,977), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Magma Intrusion, Rift Propagation, Sdr Formation, Volcanic Province, Volcanic Rift, Breakup, Continent, Crust, Development, Evolving, Flow, Lavas, Magmatic, Mantle, Margins, Models, Offshore, Plume, Plumes, Rifted, Rifts, Sdrs, Structure, Subsidence, Thick, Thousand, Volcanism.

Along-strike variations in synrift magmatism on the Eastern North American Margin
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2017; Program: GeoPRISMS

1. Donna J Shillington($131,664), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: 3-d Distribution, Continental Breakup, Magmatic Intrusions, Tectonic Settings, Velocity Model, Collected, Controls, Crust, ENAM, Excellent, Extensive, Magmatism, Margin, Modification, North, Rifting, Rifts, Seismic, Structures, Synrift, Volume.

Reconstructing Precipitation Rates from C & H Isotopes in Mangrove Lipids
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: Geobiology & Low-Temp Geochem

1. Julian P Sachs($681,864), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Hydrogen And Carbon, 20th Century, 2h1h Ratio, Carbon Isotope, Cm Sediments, Mangrove Trees, Rainfall Rates, AD, CC, Climate, Continue, Determined, Fractionation, HH, Increases, Lipids, Mangroves, Mean, Micronesian, Ocean, Owing, Precipitation, Produced, Ratios, Regions, Salinity, Subtropical, Systematically, Time, Tropical, Tropics.

RAPID: The impact of increased fresh water input from Hurricane Harvey to the water quality and stratification of coastal and offshore waters of Texas.
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Anthony H Knap($199,592), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Bight Region Contributed, Biomass And Microbial, Coastal Water Quality, Derived Sources Leading, Ocean Heat Content, Supplying Thermal Heat, Terrestrially Derived Sources, Texas Bight Region, Atmospheric Oxygen, Deep Gulf, Hurricane Harvey, Increased Biomass, Increasing Stratification, Inhibiting Ventilation, Microbial Activity, Shelf Region, Southeastern Texas, Transporting Nutrients, August, Buoyancy-controlled, Cruises, Flood, Flooding, Freshwater, Glider, Has, Impacting, Intensification, Late, Mexico, Passed, Rapid, Respiration, Resulting, River, September, Storm, Waters.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Impact of freshwater runoff from Hurricane Harvey on coral reef benthic organisms and associated microbial communities
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Sarah W Davies($32,248), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
2. Lory Z Santiago-Vazquez($27,274), University of Houston - Clear Lake, Houston
3. Kathryn Shamberger($68,399), Texas A&M University, College Station
4. Adrienne Simoes Correa($72,076), William Marsh Rice University, Houston
Key terms: 2-d Reef Replicas, 2-d Reef, Benthic Invertebrate, Coral Reefs, Extreme Storm, Extreme Storms, Freshwater Runoff, Harvey Runoff, Hurricane Harvey, Invertebrate Mortality, Reef Health, Water Chemistry, Allow, Climate, Coastal, Damage, Decline, Ecosystems, Effects, FGBNMS, Following, Graduate, Hurricanes, Induce, Local, Microbial, Programs, Public, Seawater, Shifts, Texas, Undergraduates.

RAPID: Degradation and Resilience of Seagrass Ecosystem Structure and Function following a Direct Impact by Hurricane Harvey
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Lauren Yeager($199,722), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Middle Texas Coast, Structure And Function, Low Salinity, Reference Sites, Seagrass Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Disturbance, Disturbances, Extreme, Factors, Freshwater, Habitat, Harvey, Hurricane, Lens, Loss, Models, Nets, Rainfall, Recognized, Recovery, Seagrasses, Six, Societal, Storm, Trophic, Turbidity.

Collaborative Research: RAPID-HARVEY: Response of plankton assemblages and trophodynamics to a historic, hurricane-induced floodwater plume in a subtropical, pelagic environment
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Kelly Robinson($94,446), University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette
2. Astrid Schnetzer($55,187), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
3. Simon Geist($50,354), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
Key terms: Food Web Interactions, Hurricane Harvey, Larval Fish, Time Scales, Abundance, Assemblages, Collected, Composition, Cruises, Datasets, Delivered, Effects, Evolution, Existing, Floodwater, GOM, Gear, Gulf, Massive, Mexico, Months, Plankton, Planktonic, Plume, Regional, Seasonal, Shared, Southeast, Students, Timing, Zooplankton.

Disturbance and recovery of the microbial communities in Galveston Bay following Hurricane Harvey and flooding of the Houston area
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Jessica Labonte($52,063), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Biogeochemical Cycles, Galveston Bay, Hurricane Harvey, Viral Lysis, Adaptation, Causing, Climate, Ecosystem, Effect, Environmental, Flooding, Hosts, Houston, Measure, Microbes, Microbial, Precipitation, Recovery, Storm, Stresses, Subsequent, Time, Viruses, Weather.

Collaborative Research: A RAPID response to Hurricane Harvey's impacts on coastal carbon cycle, metabolic balance and ocean acidification
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Brian J Roberts($42,686), Louisiana Universities Marine Corsortium, Chauvin
2. Steven E Lohrenz($34,232), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, North Dartmouth
3. John C Lehrter($40,507), University of South Alabama, Mobile
4. Wei-Jun Cai($40,933), University of Delaware, Newark
5. Kanchan Maiti($41,641), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Carbon Cycle, Hurricane Harvey, Water Column, Collected, Compare, Continent, Gulf, Measure, Metabolic, Mexico, Organic, Oxygen, Post-hurricane, Rates, Region, Seasonal, Sediments, Storm, Winter.

Effects of Hurricane Harvey's extraordinary rain event on sedimentation at the tidal inlets of Galveston Bay, Texas
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Robert R Stewart($64,644), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Erosion And Deposition, Pre And Post-storm, Roads And San, San Luis Pass, Bolivar Roads, Chirp Sonar, Coastal Barrier, Fresh Water, Galveston Bay, Hurricane Harvey, Marine Geophysical, Post-storm Surveys, Protect Galveston, Repeat Survey, Sediment Cores, Sonar Surveys, Storm Erosion, Trillion Gallons, Weeks Prior, Acoustic, Bathymetry, Bottom, Comparison, Currents, Depth, Document, Dumped, Estuary, Government, Has, High-resolution, Houston, Images, Inlet, Inlets, Khz, Management, Planning, Pre-, Public, Rainfall, Repeats, Strong, Students, Surge, Surges, Swath, Texas, Unprecedented, Volumes.

Hurricane Harvey Impacts on Local and Landscape Scale Salt Marsh Carbon Storage
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Jill Arriola($86,762), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Carbon Burial, Carbon Storage, Coastal Wetlands, Global Carbon, Hurricane Harvey, Salt Marsh, Salt Marshes, Satellite Imagery, Storm Landfalls, Accretion, Anahuac, Aransas, Aug, Baseline, Lidar, Local, NWR, Obj, Objectives, Organic, Perishable, Post-storm, Quantify, Sediment, Storms, Student, TX.

RAPID: Hurricane Impact on Phytoplankton Community Dynamics and Metabolic Response
Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Lisa Campbell($194,033), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Hurricane Harvey, Nutrient Inputs, Texas Coast, Analysis, Captured, Continuous, Drastic, Effects, Environment, Environmental, Food, Future, IFCB, Metabolic, Metatranscriptomic, Molecular, Objectives, Phytoplankton, Potential, RAPID, Runoff, Species, Strategies, Structure, Time.

RAPID: The impact of Hurricane Harvey on water column and sediment biogeochemistry of the Mission-Aransas Estuary in south Texas
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Amber K Hardison($157,063), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Carbon And Nitrogen, Grain Size, Hurricane Harvey, Nitrogen Cycling, Bay, Collect, Collected, Estuary, Lipids, MANERR, Mission-aransas, Nutrients, Pigments, Sediment, Sites, Storm, Student, Texas, Water, Waters.

RAPID: Measuring freshwater exports from Galveston Bay after Hurricane Harvey
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Scott A Socolofsky($134,964), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Outflow And Receiving, Coastal Waters, Density Difference, Estuarine Outflow, Extreme Flushing, Galveston Bay, Near Zero, Receiving Waters, Salinity Structure, Tidal Plume, Accurate, Allow, Circulation, Conditions, Discharge, Dynamics, Ecosystem, Expected, Fate, Flooding, Following, Mixing, Nfield, Numerical, Observations, Offshore, Time.

RAPID: Capturing the Signature of Hurricane Harvey on Texas Coastal Lagoons
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Michael Wetz($182,790), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
Key terms: Dissolved Oxygen, Hurricane Harvey, Texas Coast, Benthic, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Coastal, Cycles, Estuaries, Estuarine, Existing, Hit, Inflow, Intensity, Massive, Nitrogen, Nutrients, Organic, Organisms, Phytoplankton, Pis, Primary, Salinity, Sampling, Storm, Tremendous.

RAPID: Hurricane Harvey Rapid Response: In-Situ Barrier Island Storm Impact and Recovery Measurements of Hydrodynamics, Morphodynamics, and Sedimentation Acr. Hog and F. Island TX
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Jens Figlus($36,207), Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station, College Station
Key terms: Barrier Island, Storm Impacts, Capabilities, Coastal, Context, Current, Detailed, Extreme, Field, Landfall, Level, Measure, Post-storm, Potential, Rapid, Recovery, Rrus, Sites, Storms, Surface, UAS, Wave.

NSF Rapid: Urgent sampling zooplankton for assessing ecosystem restoration of G alveston Bay after catastrophic impacts of Hurricane Harvey
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Hui Liu($100,061), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Galveston Bay Watershed, Ecosystem Functions, Estuarine Ecosystems, Extreme Flooding, Freshwater Inflow, Hydrographic Properties, Citizen, Communication, Distribution, Driving, Dynamics, Ecological, Fish, Gulf, Has, Induced, Information, Local, Natural, Pelagic, Post-storm, RAPID, Rainfall, Region, Relation, Restoration, Salinity, Seeks, Texas, Undergraduate, Zooplankton.

RAPID: Hurricane-Driven Beach Sand Sorting from Dune to Shoreline: The Case of Hurricane Harvey
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Hurricane Harvey 2017

1. Firat Y Testik($38,662), University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio
Key terms: Hurricane Harvey, Port Aransas, Sediment Size, Sediment Transport, Adjustment, Beach, Beaches, Characteristics, Dataset, Dune, Forcing, Island, Morphology, Processes, Region, Sorting, TX.

RAPID: Hurricane Irma Impacts on Nitrogen Cycling in Florida Bay
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2017; Program: Hurricane Irma 2017

1. Christopher S Martens($156,472), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Algal Bloom Meta-genomic, Sponge And Seagrass, Algal Blooms, Bacterial Count, Biomass Surveys, Bloom Meta-genomic, Florida Bay, Hurricane Irma, Nitrogen Budget, Nitrogen Cycling, Organic Matter, Seagrass Biomass, Unc-chapel Hill, Water Column, Central, Coastal, Completed, Ecosystems, FWC, FWC-M, FWC-SP, Generated, Has, Losses, Multi-year, Overall, Passage, Plus, Pre-irma, Primary, Recycling, Sites, Sponges, Time-series, Unc-chapel.

RAPID: Collaborative Research: Sponge resilience in the face of multiple stressors
Award Effective Date: 12/15/2017; Program: Hurricane Irma 2017

1. Julie B Olson($63,446), University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa
2. Deborah J Gochfeld($97,442), University of Mississippi, University
3. Marilyn Brandt($39,111), University of The Virgin Islands, Charlotte Amalie
Key terms: Coral Reefs Worldwide, Coastal Development, Devastating Storms, Genetic Diversity, Land-based Stressors, Sponge Assemblages, Virgin Islands, Algae, Approaches, Assess, Combination, Corals, Dominated, Exposed, Exposure, Human, Hurricanes, Land-based, Levels, Multiple, Natural, Population, Potential, Prior, Recovery, Recruitment, Resilience, Respond, Serve, Sites, Sources, Species, Sponges, Succession, Thomas.

RAPID: Effects of Hurricane Irma on shallow-water marine ecosystems: Assessing resiliency of sponge and macroinvertebrate communities in the Florida Keys
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2017; Program: Hurricane Irma 2017

1. Malcolm S Hill($49,234), University of Richmond, Richmond
Key terms: Feeding Behavior, Florida Keys, Hurricane Irma, Inhalant-exhalent Water, Sponge Feeding, Sponge Loop, Collected, Damage, Ecological, Ecosystems, Effects, Flow, Habitats, Inhalant-exhalent, Macroinvertebrate, Populations, Pumping, Reef, Size, Sponges, Storm, Surveys, Was.

RAPID: Resilience of Caribbean octocorals following Hurricanes Irma and Maria
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2017; Program: Hurricane Irma 2017

1. Howard R Lasker($126,722), SUNY at Buffalo, Amherst
Key terms: Disturbance And Subsequent, Irma And Maria, Recruitment And Survival, Following Disturbance, Hard Corals, Hurricanes Irma, South Shore, Spatial Complexity, Subsequent Recovery, Abundance, Abundances, Caribbean, Driven, Effects, Followed, Has, Increased, John, Levels, Octocoral, Octocorals, Past, Populations, Processes, Reef, Reefs, Relative, Resilience, Scleractinian, Scleractinians, Sea, Sites, Species, St, Window.

RAPID: Collaborative Proposal: Dynamics of storm-mediated asexual reproduction in Florida Keys corals post-Hurricane Irma
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2017; Program: Hurricane Irma 2017

1. Carly D Kenkel($44,281), University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Key terms: Existing Clonal Structure, Asexual Reproduction, Clonal Reproduction, Coral Species, Ecological Dynamics, Factors Affecting, Florida Keys, Fragment Survival, Hurricane Irma, Reef-building Corals, Caused, Damage, Fragmentation, Fragments, Local, Natural, Rate, Reef-building, Reefs, Restoration, Source, Surveys.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: RAPID 2017 Hurricane Irma: How do the effects of pulse disturbance vary with abiotic conditions, disturbance history, and proximity to a transition zone.
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2017; Program: Hurricane Irma 2017

1. Christine M Hladik($25,877), Georgia Southern University Research and Service Foundation, Inc, Statesboro
2. Merryl L Alber($174,105), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Central Georgia Coast, Georgia Coastal, Hurricane Irma, Salt Water, Storm Surge, Affect, Effects, GCE-LTER, Habitats, Intertidal, LTER, Landscape, Level, Marsh, Monitoring, Plants, Sampling, Sites, Tidal, Upstream, Wetland.

RAPID: Collaborative research: Dynamics of storm-mediated asexual reproduction in Florida Keys corals post-Hurricane Irma.
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2017; Program: Hurricane Irma 2017

1. Mikhail V Matz($116,856), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Existing Clonal Structure, Asexual Reproduction, Clonal Reproduction, Coral Species, Ecological Dynamics, Factors Affecting, Florida Keys, Fragment Survival, Hurricane Irma, Reef-building Corals, Caused, Damage, Fragmentation, Fragments, Local, Natural, Rate, Reef-building, Reefs, Restoration, Source, Surveys.

RAPID: Hurricane Irma: Effects of repeated severe storms on shallow Caribbean reefs and their changing ecological resilience
Award Effective Date: 11/15/2017; Program: Hurricane Irma 2017

1. Peter J Edmunds($73,296), The University Corporation, Northridge, Northridge
Key terms: Irma And Maria, Rv Walton Smith, Cast Doubt, Coral Reefs, Hurricanes Irma, National Park, Virgin Islands, Analyses, Annularis, Caribbean, Compared, Corals, Cruise, Decades, Describe, Disturbances, Dynamics, Effects, Has, John, Mortality, NSF, Opportunities, Population, Respond, Severe, St, Storms, Structure, Testing, Time-series, Unique.

RAPID: Post-Hurricane Irma Erosion and Deposition in Coastal Embayments of Eastern St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands
Award Effective Date: 10/15/2017; Program: Hurricane Irma 2017

1. Derek E Sawyer($52,835), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Multibeam Bathymetric Survey, Coral Harbor, Hurricane Irma, Non-storm Sedimentation, Offshore Bays, Sediment Cores, Virgin Islands, Bathymetry, Coast, Environment, Erosion, Has, John, Non-storm, Versus, Volcanic, Yield.

Collaborative Research: Chicxulub impact effects and the recovery of life using scientific drilling investigations at ground zero
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. David Kring($144,925), Universities Space Research Association, Washington
2. Timothy J Bralower($193,343), Pennsylvania State Univ University Park, University Park
3. Axel Wittmann($125,258), Arizona State University, Tempe
4. Sonia Tikoo-Schantz($140,445), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
5. Clive R Neal($138,675), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
6. Michael T Whalen($159,821), University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus, Fairbanks
Key terms: Mass Extinction, Peak Ring, Asteroid, Boundary, Chicxulub, Cores, Crater, Education, Environmental, Global, Hydrothermal, Impact-induced, International, Mechanisms, Models, Post-impact, Processes, Program, Recovered, Recovery, Rock, Sequence, Stratigraphy, Uplifted.

Collaborative Proposal: Chicxulub impact effects and the recovery of life using scientific drilling investigations at ground zero
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: INTEGRATED EARTH SYSTEMS

1. Daniel F Stockli($566,407), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Mass Extinction, Peak Ring, Asteroid, Boundary, Chicxulub, Cores, Crater, Education, Environmental, Global, Hydrothermal, Impact-induced, International, Mechanisms, Models, Post-impact, Processes, Program, Recovered, Recovery, Rock, Sequence, Stratigraphy, Uplifted.

MRI: Development of a Towed Streamer Controlled Source Electromagnetic (CSEM) System for Groundwater Mapping on the Continental Shelf
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Robert L Evans($812,540), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Continental Margins, Continental Shelf, Fresh Water, Towed Streamer, Water Depth, Brackish, CSEM, Connected, Consist, Control, Deposits, EM, Groundwater, Has, Layers, Map, Offshore, Presence, Receiver, Receivers, Resistive, Resources, Ship, Source, Subsurface, Surveying, Transmission, Transmitter.

MRI Development of the Scripps Ocean Atmosphere Research Simulator (SOARS)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Farooq Azam($3,143,165), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Atmosphere Boundary Layer, Clouds And Climate, Marine Atmosphere Boundary, Hydraulics Laboratory, Interdisciplinary Studies, Ocean-atmosphere Exchange, Allow, Atmospheric, Biological, Biology, CAICE, Capable, Center, Chemical, Complex, Conditions, Controllable, Critical, Diversity, Education, Enable, Engineering, Experiments, Fields, Fluid, Future, Generation, Has, Hlab, Human, Level, MABL, National, Natural, Ocean-atmosphere, Oceans, Outreach, Polar, Pollution, Presence, Processes, Reaction, SIO, SOARS, STEM, Scripps, Serve, Simulate, Simulating, Simulator, Training, Tropical, UCSD, Unique, Unprecedented, Unravel, Waves, Wind.

CAREER: The Impact of Hydrologic State on CO2 Flux and Acidification in Subtropical Estuaries
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Integrat & Collab Ed & Rsearch

1. Xinping Hu($507,323), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
Key terms: Economically Challenged Backgrounds, Underrepresented And Economically, Carbon Cycling, Carbonate Chemistry, Co2 Fluxes, Coastal Ocean, Estuarine Acidification, Graduate Students, Mission-aransas Estuary, School Students, Texas Aandm, AM, Analysis, Changing, Degrees, Education, Estuaries, Field, Hydrologic, Increasing, Information, Meetings, Mission-aransas, Organized, Pco, Presentations, River, STEM, Sampling, Undergraduate, Water.

Collaborative Research: Building a framework for the role of bacterial-derived chemical signals in mediating phytoplankton population dynamics
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Integrtv Ecological Physiology

1. Elizabeth Harvey($294,854), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
2. Kristen Whalen($378,942), Haverford College, Haverford
3. David C Rowley($253,318), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Phytoplankton And Bacteria, Biogeochemical Fluxes, Marine Environment, Marine Microbial, Microbial Interactions, Phytoplankton Mortality, Bacterial, Central, Chemical, Cycling, Domains, Exposure, Field-based, HHQ, Has, Influence, Mechanistic, Molecule, Molecules, Pis, Play, QS, Signaling, Students, Summer.

2017-2020 Provision of log data reduction and database services for scientific ocean drilling
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: International Ocean Discovery

1. David S Goldberg($1,314,133), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: International Ocean Discovery, Iodp Logging Database, Logging Subcontractor Schlumberger, Ocean Discovery Program, Reduction And Quality, Downhole Logging, Joides Resolution, Logging Services, Prime Contractor, Quality Control, Texas Aandm, Aboard, Activities, Borehole, COL, Columbia, Drillship, FY, JR, JRSO, Logdb, Maintain, Management, NSF, Previous, Properties, Provided, Raw, Reduced.

MRI: Acquisition of a Zeiss PALM Microscope for Molecular and Microbiological Research
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Major Research Instrumentation

1. Kathleen K Treseder($365,812), University of California-Irvine, Irvine
Key terms: Cells And Tissues, Cutting Edge, Palm Microscope, Southern California, Tissue Sections, Allow, Apply, Authentic, Characteristics, Complex, Core, Diverse, Enable, Environmental, Experiences, Facility, Feature, Fine, Graduate, Individual, Instrument, Interdisciplinary, LEAPS, Laser, Learners, Local, Marine, Microdissection, Microscopes, Mixed, Molecular, Optical, School, Sorting, Specific, Students, Teaching, Techniques, Training, Tweezers, UCI, Undergraduates, Underrepresented, Via.

Collaborative Research: Identifying Controls on Weathering of Seafloor Massive Sulfides
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Daniel Rogers($130,288), Stonehill College, North Easton
2. Colleen Hansel($362,632), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Seafloor Massive, Back-arc, Deep, Deposits, Energy, Estimate, Fate, Interiors, Metal-rich, Microbial, Ocean, Reactions, SMS, Seawater, Sulfide, Sulfides, Undergraduate, Weathering.

Testing the fidelity of neodymium isotopes as a paleocirculation tracer in the Southeast Indian-Southern Ocean
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Chandranath Basak($142,643), CSUB Auxiliary for Sponsored Programs Administration, Bakersfield
2. Steven L Goldstein($142,643), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Past Ocean Circulation, Pore Water Nd, Water Nd Isotopes, Mode Water, Seawater Nd, Southern Ocean, Water Mass, Water Masses, Antarctic, Behavior, Biogeochemical, Cruise, Cycling, Experience, Ii, Limitations, Modern, Particulates, Quasi-conservative, SEISO, Sediment, Sinks, Sources, Student, Subantarctic, Tracer.

Collaborative Research: Advancing Deformation Monitoring Methods at Axial Seamount
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David W Caress($204,505), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
2. Scott L Nooner($172,641), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
3. William W Chadwick($179,345), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, Initiative's Cabled Array, Magma Chamber Filling, Observing Initiative's Cabled, Ocean Observing Initiative's, Axial Seamount, Deformation Field, Foundation's Ocean, Initiative's Cabled, Observing Initiative's, Successfully Forecast, Active, Advance, Caldera, Coast, Crust, Cycles, Deflation, Eruption, Has, Implications, Inflates, Inflation, Initiatives, Long-term, Modeling, Monitoring, Newly, Pressure, Processes, Revealed, Seafloor, Sensor, Sensors, Submarine, Time, Volcano, Volcanoes, Volcanos.

Collaborative Research: Reconstructing Mean State and ENSO Variability in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific under Glacial Forcing: A Combined Geochemical and Organic Proxy Approach
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Matthew W Schmidt($275,481), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
2. Thomas S Bianchi($80,043), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Thermocline Temperature Variance, Core Recovered, Diol Index, Earth's Climate, Eep Mean, Extreme Climate, Millennial-scale Climate, Time Slices, Tropical Pacific, Abrupt, Analyses, Combination, Comprehensive, Critical, D-O, ENSO, El, Evolve, Foraminiferal, Future, Global, Has, MIS, Millennial-scale, Multi-proxy, Multiple, Natural, Near, Past, Reconstruct, Single, Upwelling, Varied, Warming.

Collaborative Research: The role of pCO2 in the astronomically-paced climatic cycles of the Miocene
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Pincelli M Hull($357,287), Yale University, New Haven
2. Sandra K Turner($72,296), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
3. Howard Scher($136,053), University of South Carolina at Columbia, Columbia
Key terms: Carbon Cycle Dynamics, Climate And Carbon, Atmospheric Co2, Boron Isotope, Carbon Cycling, Cycle Dynamics, Ice Cores, Ice Sheets, Milankovitch Cycles, Orbital Timescales, Time Interval, Aims, Ancient, Atlantic, Carbonate, Climates, Constraints, Continent, Control, Coupled, Earth, Estimates, Forcing, Generated, Geochemical, Global, High-resolution, Isotopes, Levels, Mid-miocene, Million, Model, North, Paleotemperature, Pco, Proxy, Reconstruct, Resolution, Site, Temperature, Warmer, Was.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Tracing Greenhouse to Icehouse Climate Evolution Along the Western North Atlantic Meridional and Paleodepth Transect
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Gregory S Mountain($312,778), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Mitchell W Lyle($131,889), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Digital Seismic Reflection, Drill Sites, Earth's Climate, Greenhouse Gases, North Atlantic, Affect, Climates, Compare, Continent, Cooling, DSDP, Deep, Drilling, Graduate, Has, IODP, Latitudes, Million, Miocene, Ocean, Pre-pleistocene, Sea, Sediment, Survey, Temperature, Time, Training, Warm, Was, World.

Collaborative Research: Pythia's Oasis - Access to Deep Subduction Zone Fluids
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert W Collier($122,030), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Evan A Solomon($405,157), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Autonomous Underwater Vehicle, Cascadia Subduction Zone, Deep Submergence Facility, Geology And Chemistry, National Deep Submergence, Remotely Operated Vehicle, Woods Hole Oceanographic, Continental Margin, Fluids Originate, Heat Flow, Plate Boundary, Pore Fluids, Pore Water, Push Cores, Pythia's Oasis, Seep Site, Water Column, Access, Active, Alkalinity, Analyses, Analyzed, Behavior, Below, Characterize, Cl, Collected, Coring, Cruise, Current, Dehydration, Depth, Discovered, Discovery, Extensive, Extraordinary, Fault, Field, Implications, Intense, Japan, Jason, Li, Locked, Magnitude, Oregon, Overpressures, Processes, Program, Pythias, Reactions, Salinity, Seafloor, Seismogenic, Sentry, Shipboard, Sites, Spatial, Students, Temperature, Tested, Venting, Warm, Was.

Collaborative Research: Carbon Isotope and geotracer-enabled simulation of the Transient Climate Evolution of the Deglacial Ocean (C-iTRACE-O)
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Zhengyu Liu($234,009), Ohio State University, Columbus
Key terms: Deglacial Evolution, Allowing, Atlantic, CESM, Circulation, Climate, Compared, Comparisons, Dc, Deep, Deglaciation, Direct, Directly, Esms, Graduate, Long-standing, Mechanisms, Model, Model-data, Ocean, Paleoclimate, Proxies, Simulation, Simulations, Transient, Was.

A Least-Squares Fit of an Ocean Model to Deglacial Radiocarbon Records
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Olivier Marchal($493,037), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Deep Oceanic Basins, Ocean Circulation Model, Atmospheric Co2, Kalman Filter, Ocean Ventilation, Atmosphere, Climate, Concentration, Deglaciation, Distribution, Estimate, Estimates, Geologic, LGM, Natural, Past, Radiocarbon, Simplified, Smoother, Students, Surface, Techniques, Time, Waters.

Collaborative Research: Tracking the Subtropical Front across the Mid Pleistocene Transition Using Sea Surface Temperature and Nutrients
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Melissa A Berke($263,727), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame
2. Rebecca S Robinson($390,647), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Southern Indian Ocean, Upper Ocean Dynamics, Atmospheric Co2, Global Climate, Integrated Reconstruction, Southern Ocean, Stf Position, Subtropical Front, Water Temperature, Africa, Agulhas, Atlantic, Circulation, Core, Currents, Distribution, Exchange, Export, Generate, Has, Kiloyears, MPT, Migration, Million, Movement, Multiple, Northward, Nutrient, Organic, Region, Sediment, Total, Uptake, Warm.

Using Seafloor Compliance to image the Crust around Hawaii
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Gabriele Laske($260,766), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Plume-lithosphere Undersea Melt, Undersea Melt Experiment, Crustal Structure, Initial Seismic, Mantle Images, Mantle Plume, Plume-lithosphere Undersea, Seafloor Compliance, Seismic Imaging, Beneath, Complex, Conclusions, Convecting, Datasets, Deformation, Earth, Geometry, Has, Hawaiian, Hawaiis, Interaction, Models, Ocean, Plumes, Pressure, Relatively, Resulting, Revision, Rock, Surface, Tool, Trace, Waves.

IODP Expedition 363 Objective Research: Evolution of the Indo-Pacific warm pool and deep Pacific circulation during major global climate transitions since the latest Miocene
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Ana C Ravelo($319,601), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: North Pacific Deep, Pacific Deep Water, Carbon Cycle, Deep Pacific, Enormous Capacity, Global Climate, Heat Transport, Iodp Exp, Surface Ocean, Achieve, Benthic, Comparison, Critical, Expedition, Foraminifera, Generated, IPWP, Indo-pacific, Isotope, Largest, Oceans, Past, Period, Periods, Pliocene, Proxy, Region, Sites, Store, Training, Undergraduates, Warm, Was, Worlds.

Determining the geographical extent and radiometric age of the Paleocene-Eocene boundary ejecta strewn field
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Morgan F Schaller($349,976), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy
Key terms: Eventually Led, P-e Boundary, P-e Climate, Primate Lineage, Strewn Field, Age, Biotic, CIE, Carbon, Circumstances, Climatic, Crater, Ejecta, Evidence, Evolution, Extent, Extraterrestrial, Future, Global, Globally, Humans, Life, Marks, Million, P-E, Precise, Radiometrically, Search, Sediments, Site, Substantial, Was.

The Mendocino Fracture Zone: A natural laboratory to study aging of the lithosphere and asthenosphere
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David T Sandwell($292,796), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Conductivity And Seismic, Arrival Times, Electrical Conductivity, Fracture Zone, Mendocino Fz, San Diego, Sediment Thickness, Seismic Velocity, Temperature Difference, Age, Boundary, California, Depth, Differences, Differential, Earth, Effect, Estimate, Faults, Graduate, LAB, Laboratory, Mantle, Models, North, Oceanic, Partial, Plate, Rock, Seafloor, Ship, South, Strength, Tectonic.

Millennial-scale atmospheric CO2 variability during the last deglaciation: Testing the biological pump hypothesis using upper ocean carbon isotope records
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David C Lund($262,951), University of Connecticut, Storrs
Key terms: Carbon Isotopic Signals, Atmospheric Co2, Intermediate Depths, Light Carbon, Low 13c12c, Marine Photosynthesis, Organic Matter, Reduced Marine, Surface Ocean, Amount, Assess, Atlantic, Becoming, Benthic, CC, Core, Deglaciation, Dwelling, Fossils, Ice, Isotopically, Pacific, Ratio, Source, Southwest, Water.

Collaborative Research: Assessing the State of Locking on the Frontal Thrust of the Cascadia Subduction Zone with Seafloor Geodesy
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. David A Schmidt($50,640), University of Washington, Seattle
2. C. David Chadwell($420,636), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cascadia Subduction Zone, Juan De Fuca, Tectonic Plate, Allow, Along-strike, Benchmarks, Buildup, Downward, Existing, Future, GPS, Gps-acoustic, Locking, Measure, Megathrust, Motion, Motions, North, Observations, Offshore, Overriding, Platform, Seafloor, Sites, Strain, Surface, Time, Transponders, Tsunami, Tsunamis.

Collaborative Research: The Transition from Rifting to Seafloor Spreading at the Western Tip of the Cocos-Nazca Rift
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Hans Schouten($215,042), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Emily M Klein($267,840), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Initial Rifting, Magmatic Spreading, Seafloor Spreading, Cocos-nazca, Collected, Cruise, Development, Evolution, Gravity, Magnetic, Pacific, Rock, Segmentation, Tectonic, Tip, Transition.

Collaborative Research: Fate of Irrawaddy and Salween River Sediment: Relative Importance of Oceanographic and Tectonic Controls
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jingpu (Paul) Liu($239,137), North Carolina State University, Raleigh
2. Steven A Kuehl($308,695), College of William & Mary Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point
Key terms: River Deltas, River Sediment, Coastal, Conditions, Delivered, Deltaic, Development, Explore, Flooding, Future, Growth, I-S, Irrawaddy, Land, Model, Monsoon, Myanmar, Oceanographic, People, Shelf, Source, Students, Tectonic, Training, Transport.

Origin of highly heterogeneous Strontium Isotopic Ratio in melt inclusions from oceanic hotspot lavas
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Matthew G Jackson($334,130), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Exhibit Highly Heterogeneous, Olivine-hosted Melt Inclusions, Strontium And Neodymium, Isotopic Compositions, Oceanic Crust, Oceanic Lavas, Olivine-hosted Melt, Samoan Lavas, Analyses, Analyzed, Assimilation, Blebs, Collected, Critical, Deep, Extreme, Geochemical, Hawaiian, Hotspots, Individual, Information, Island, Isotopes, Magmatic, Mantle, Melts, Mixing, Origin, Plumes, Portion, Pristine, Processes, Rock, Source, Srsr, Training, Trapped.

Markov chain Monte Carlo inversion of Rock Deformation Data: Applications to the Dynamics of Oceanic Mantle
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jun Korenaga($161,232), Yale University, New Haven
Key terms: Experimental Rock Mechanics, Rock Deformation Experiments, Geophysical Modeling, Olivine Aggregates, Probabilistic Modeling, Suboceanic Mantle, Based, Conditions, Creep, Development, Dynamics, Factors, Flow-law, Framework, Grain, Has, Laboratory, MCMC, Progress, Rheology, Temperature, Uncertainties, Viscosity.

Using Loihi Basaltic Rocks to Understand the Hawaiian Plume
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Michael O Garcia($251,924), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Crustal Contamination, Geochemical Characterization, Geochemical Studies, Hawaiian Hotspot, Hawaiian Plume, Hawaiian Volcano, Loihi Basalts, Loihi Lavas, Mantle Plume, Mantle Source, Analyses, Available, Collected, Craters, Deep, Earth, Especially, Extensively, Flank, Gas, Gt, Insights, Interior, Perspective, Processes, Rare, Rift, Signatures, Stage, Submarine, Submersible, Summit, Trend, Volcanoes.

Ventilation History of the Sulu Sea: Record of Abrupt Changes in the Tropical Western Pacific Thermocline
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Braddock K Linsley($279,979), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: High-latitude Ice Sheet, Ice Sheet Melting, Sea Level Rise, Sea Sediment Core, Sulu Sea Sediment, Tropical Pacific Thermocline, Western Tropical Pacific, Benthic Foraminifera, High-latitude Ice, Ventilation History, Western Pacific, BP, Basin, Calcifies, Centuries, Deep, Delta-o, Dwelling, Evidence, Geochemical, Glacial, Glacial-interglacial, Globorotalia, Has, Interval, Larger, MWP-A, MWP-B, Measured, Meltwater, Ocean, Oceanographic, Planktonic, Preliminary, Rapid, Rapidly, Signal, Spanning, Surface, Time, Timing, Tumida, Utilize.

Tectonic control of the carbon cycle and climate: Resolving the effects of global spreading-rate variations with high temporal resolution over the past 20 Myr
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Colleen A Dalton($417,369), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2 Levels, Astronomical Timescale, Carbon Cycle, Co2 Degassing, Global Cooling, Plate Tectonics, Seafloor Spreading, Spreading Rates, Crust, Earth, Estimates, Magnetic, Mid-ocean, Million, Myr, Ocean, Past, Ridge, Training, Volcanism.

Collaborative Research: Refining foraminiferal I/Ca as a paleoceanographic oxygenation proxy for the glacial Atlantic Ocean
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Andrew Ridgwell($63,938), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
2. Ellen Thomas($59,263), Wesleyan University, Middletown
3. Zunli Lu($300,538), Syracuse University, Syracuse
Key terms: Dissolved Oxygen Levels, Hypoxic And Suboxic, Benthic Foraminifera, Suboxic Conditions, Atlantic, Carbon, Cycle, Distribution, Expected, Future, Ica, Iodine, Isotope, Life, Marine, Ocean, Oceans, Past, Proxies, Proxy, Reconstruct, Reconstructing, Refine, Regions, Syracuse, Time.

Collaborative research: Heat flow mapping and quantification at ASHES hydrothermal vent field using an observatory imaging sonar
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Karen G Bemis($193,895), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Guangyu Xu($29,444), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Leonid N Germanovich($15,845), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
4. Aaron Marburg($894,236), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: De Fuca Ridge, Focused And Diffuse, Juan De Fuca, Ashes Hydrothermal, Cabled Observatory, Discharge Rates, Fluid Flow, Foundation's Recently, Heat Flux, Heat Transferred, Heat Transport, Hydrothermal Discharge, Hydrothermal Vent, Seafloor Hydrothermal, Vent Field, Acoustic, Biosphere, Chemical, Combined, Connections, Crust, Developed, Dynamics, Enable, Exerts, Extent, Fluids, Has, Magma, Measure, Measuring, Methane, Method, Monitoring, Newly, Ocean, Periods, Quantification, Resulting, Rock, Sonar, Sources, Subsurface, Supplies, Tested, Time, Venting, Vents, Volcanic.

Beyond ocean temperature: Extracting new dimensions of paleoclimatic information from archaeal lipids and their isotopic compositions
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Ann Pearson($332,460), Harvard University, Cambridge
Key terms: Temperature And Productivity, Collectively Allow, Isotopic Analysis, Ocean Temperature, Tex86 Temperature, Archaea, Biogeochemical, Carbon, Climate, Errors, Examine, Hydrogen, Marine, Measuring, Nutrient, Observed, Past, Proxy, Reconstruction, Regional, Requires, Signals, Temperatures.

Accomplishment Based Renewal: An experimental study of phase separation and mineral fluid equilibria on iron and hydrogen transport in mid-ocean ridge hydrothermal systems
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. William E Seyfried($430,988), University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, Minneapolis
Key terms: Fe And H2, Hydrothermal Vent Fluids, Temperatures And Pressures, Dissolved Fe, Hydrothermal Fluids, Hydrothermal Venting, Mid-ocean Ridge, Mid-ocean Ridges, Mineral Solubility, Phase Separation, Seafloor Hydrothermal, Chemical, Concentrations, Control, Development, Evolution, Experimental, Experiments, Geochemical, Microbial, Mid-ocean, Mineral-fluid, Nacl-ho, Processes, Reactions, Seawater, Subseafloor.

Developing paleomagnetic chronologies of, and paleogeomagnetic understanding from, IODP sites U1486 and U1489 in the western Pacific warm pool.
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert G Hatfield($197,897), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Earth's Magnetic Field, Earth's Magnetic, Field Behavior, Geomagnetic Field, North Atlantic, Ocean Sediments, Remanent Magnetization, Sedimentation Rate, Undergraduate Students, Chronologies, Continuous, Developed, Development, Directly, Equatorial, Existing, Expedition, Framework, Generate, Global, Globe, IODP, Inform, Intensity, Marine, Measure, Million, Myr, Pacific, Paleomagnetic, Pleistocene, Pliocene, Preliminary, Quality, RPI, Regions, Relative, Resolution, Similar, Site, Sites, Stacks, Suggest.

Collaborative Research: Using Osmium-Lead isotope variations in mid-ocean ridge and abyssal peridotite sulfides to understand fundamental properties of Earth's mantle
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. John C Lassiter($328,262), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
2. Jonathan E Snow($111,674), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Chemical And Isotopic, Composition And Evolution, Interstitial And Included, Mid-ocean Ridge Basalt, Mid-ocean Ridge Basalts, Os And Pb-isotopes, Abyssal Peridotites, Earth's Mantle, Gakkel Ridge, Grain-scale Os, Included Sulfides, Lithologic Heterogeneity, Magmatic Sulfides, Melt Generation, Melt Productivity, Mid-ocean Ridge, Analysis, Complement, Crust, Differences, Examines, Generated, Geochemical, Lavas, Long-term, Melting, Melts, Movement, Os-, Petrologic, Phases, Processes, Radiogenic, Reflect, Rock, Signatures, Spreading, Students, Surface.

Effects of paleoseawater composition on chemical and isotopic exchange at mid-ocean ridges
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Donald J DePaolo($327,163), University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley
Key terms: Near Mid-ocean Ridges, Chemical Composition, Chemical Exchange, Mid-ocean Ridge, Mid-ocean Ridges, Modeling Code, Near Mid-ocean, Ocean Floor, Oceanic Crust, Seafloor Hydrothermal, Seawater Circulates, Sr Isotopic, Water-rock Interaction, Affects, Ca, Chemistry, Climate, Compositions, Conditions, Cycle, Deep, Dissolved, Earth, Experiments, Geologic, Geothermal, History, Mg, Oceans, Past, Periods, Processes, Students, Time, Varying, Water-rock.

Barium/calcium ratios in non-spinose planktic foraminifera: a novel proxy for reconstructing paleo-productivity
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jennifer Fehrenbacher($563,426), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Deeper Dwelling Planktic, Generating Downcore Baca, Planktic Foraminifera Species, Seawater Baca Ratios, Accumulation Rates, Export Productivity, Fossil Specimens, Planktic Foraminiferal, Stable Isotope, Calcification, Carbon, Climate, Cores, Dissolution, Dutertrei, Generate, Low, Marine, Mgca, Obliquiloculata, Proxies, Proxy, Reconstructions, Sediment, Sediments, Utility.

Biomineralization in Deep-sea Corals: Empirical Tracer Calibration Coupled to a Mechanistic Model of Skeletal Growth
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jess F Adkins($436,656), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Key terms: 'vital Effects', Biomineralization Process, Meca Ratios, Past Climate, Wide Range, Archive, Banding, Carbonate, Corals, Deep-sea, Dianthus, Empirical, Has, Model, Modern, Observations, Organisms, Proxies, SIMS, Skeleton, Skeletons, Successful, Thermometers, Tracer.

Along Strike Variation of Seismic Moment Release and Coupling Along Oceanic Transform Faults
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jochen Braunmiller($186,667), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Continental Transform Faults, Oceanic Transform Faults, Repeating Rupture Patches, Seismic Moment Release, Seismicity And Fault, Strong And Weak, Aseismic Creep, Coupled Patches, Fault Patches, Fault Zone, Global Set, Oceanic Transforms, Plate Motion, Plate Rate, Population Centers, Seismic Behavior, Accommodated, Affect, Complexity, Coupling, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Geometrical, Hazard, Lead, Nucleation, Parameters, Properties, Ridge, Ruptures, Size.

Validation of the Strontium-Uranium Thermometer Against Instrumental Records of Ocean Temperature
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Anne Cohen($33,234), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Central Red Sea, Non-living Corals, Sst Reconstructions, Application, Calibration, Climate, Existing, Future, Geochemical, Instrumental, Non-living, Observational, Region, Requires, Robust, Sr-u, Ssts, Well-constrained.

Along-Axis Continuity of Oceanic Detachment Faults
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Robert A Sohn($95,378), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Oceanic Detachment Faulting, Detachment Faults, Mid-atlantic Ridge, Oceanic Detachments, Ridge Axis, Along-axis, Apart, Connected, Deployed, Earth, International, Local, Mid-atlantic, Network, Oceans, Plates, Seabed, Seafloor, Seismic, Seismicity, Slip, Surface, UK, °N.

Continuous and Drift Free Vertical Deformation Measurements at Axial Seamount - Installation of a Self Calibrating Pressure Recorder on the OOI Cabled Array
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Glenn S Sasagawa($317,920), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Continuously Operating Instrument, Drift Free Pressure, Ooi Cabled Array, Self-calibrating Pressure Recorder, Axial Volcano, Seafloor Volcanoes, Self-calibrating Pressure, Vertical Deformation, Component, Coverage, Eruption, Geodetic, Instruments, Knowledge, Magma, Processes, Rates, Reference, SCPR, Surveys, Vehicle.

Collaborative Research: Reconstructing Pacific Trade Wind Variability-- Extending and Replicating a Promising New Coral Proxy
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jessica E Carilli($44,905), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Diane Thompson($342,652), Trustees of Boston University, Boston
Key terms: Century And Little, Global Air Temperatures, Mnca-based Trade-wind Reconstructions, Modern And Fossil, Natural And Anthropogenic, Pacific Trade Wind, Pacific Wind Strength, Sites And Time, Tropical Pacific Wind, 20th Century, Coral Mnca, Fossil Corals, Global Climate, Little Ice, Mnca-based Trade-wind, Time Periods, Trade-wind Reconstructions, Atmosphere, Butaritari, Diversity, Dramatically, Extend, Forcing, Heat, Investigate, Kiritimati, Limited, Link, Observations, Past, Potential, Preindustrial, Proxy, Strong, Supporting, Tarawa, Trade-winds, Warming, Westerly, Winds.

Shorebased Analysis of Alvin and Sentry High-resolution Sidescan, Multibeam and Imagery Data from the 8 degree, 20' N latitude Seamounts
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Daniel J Fornari($45,683), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: 8° 20'n Latitude, 8° 20'n Seamount, Alvin And Sentry, East Pacific Rise, Eastern Pacific Ocean, Mid-ocean Ridge Spreading, 20'n Latitude, 20'n Seamount, 8° 20'n, Deep Submergence, Mid-ocean Ridge, Near-bottom Sonar, Ocean Crust, Oceanographic Expedition, Seamount Chain, Spreading Centers, Acquired, Adjacent, Ages, Allowed, Analysis, Axis, Collected, Dataset, Digital, Distance, Edifice, Enhance, Erupted, Extends, Fast-spreading, Faults, Features, High-resolution, Imagery, Lava, Mantle, Map, Maps, Morphology, Multibeam, Nbottom, Output, Platforms, Processes, Processing, Provided, Quantitative, Relative, Resolution, Seafloor, Seamounts, Slope, Vehicle, Volcanic, West.

Collaborative Research: Magnetotelluric and Seismic Investigations of Arc Melt Generation, Deliver and Storage Beneath Okmok Volcano
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kerry W Key($60,038), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Courses And Presentations, Aleutian Arc, Explosive Cfe, Mantle Wedge, Melt Migration, Okmok Volcano, Undergraduate Students, Active, Beneath, Caldera, Collected, Constraints, Crust, Display, Eruption, Female, Fluids, Graduate, Incorporated, MT, Magma, Magmatic, Offshore, Onshore, Schools, Scripps, Seismic, Storage, Supported, Upper, Uw-madison, Via, Volcanic.

Solving the mystery of Bermuda: Implications for intraplate magmatism
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Esteban Gazel($278,619), Cornell University, Ithaca
2. Esteban Gazel($232,183), Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg
Key terms: Global Carbon Cycle, Mantle Plume Model, Bermuda Platform, Bermuda Volcanic, Bermuda Volcanics, Carbonated Mantle, Drill Core, Geochemical Analyses, Mantle Source, Melting Mechanisms, Volcanic Activity, Volcanic Platform, Alternative, Composition, Continent, Convection, Deep, Formation, Formed, Generation, Geochemistry, Has, Intraplate, Lavas, Magma, Magmas, Origin, Platforms, Public, Radiogenic, Reservoir, Seafloor, Similar, Various, Volatile, Volcanism, Was.

Collaborative Research: Inferences on Cascadia Deformation Front and Plate Interface Properties from Advanced Studies of Active Source Seismic Data
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Suzanne Carbotte($155,245), Columbia University, New York
2. Juan Pablo Canales($165,431), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
3. Adrien Arnulf($163,475), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Basal Sediment Section, Forearc Accretionary Wedge, Offshore Central Oregon, Cascadia Subduction, Deformation Front, Effective Stress, Fault Zone, Future Earthquakes, Marine Seismic, Megathrust Zone, Plate Interface, Pore Fluid, Region Offshore, Subduction Zone, Acquired, Characteristics, Coast, Conditions, Creeping, Derived, Imaging, Lines, Margin, Ocean, PSDM, Planned, Properties, Rupture, Seaward, Structure, Tsunami, Velocity, Vp, Vs, Washington.

Collaborative Research: P2C2 - Reconstructing rates and sources of sea-level change over the last ~150 thousand years from a new coral database
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jerry Mitrovica($68,116), Harvard University, Cambridge
2. Robert E Kopp($338,640), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
3. Andrea Dutton($108,538), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Future Sea Level, Global Mean Sea, Sea Level Rise, Coral Database, Geophysical Models, Ice Sheets, Time Period, Ages, Climate, Continuous, Contributions, Corals, Current, Estimate, Magnitude, Peaked, Postdoctoral, Precise, Rates, Reconstruction, Sources, Student, Temperature, Training, Warming.

Collaborative Research: A Pilot Study for Electromagnetic Surveying of Freshwater Resources Beneath the US Atlantic Continental Shelf
Award Effective Date: 06/06/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Kerry W Key($109,001), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Continental Shelf, Fresh Water, Beneath, Current, Detect, Drilling, Electromagnetic, Found, Freshwater, Jersey, Mapping, Offshore, Presence, Resources, Sensitive, Subsurface, Tools.

Uranium isotopes and past changes in Southern Ocean circulation
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Christopher T Hayes($239,539), University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg
Key terms: Antarctic Bottom Water, Ice Sheet Melting, West Antarctic Ice, Interglacial Periods, Ocean Circulation, Reconstruct Past, Southern Ocean, AABW, Ago, Applied, Approach, Conditions, Continent, Deep, Forcings, Has, Investigate, Multiple, Robust, Students, Uranium.

Variations in Deformational Style at the Toe of the Nankai Accretionary Prism: Relation to Subducting Plate Sediment Thickness and Basement Topography
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Gregory F Moore($299,724), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: High-resolution Seismic Reflection, Nankai Subduction Zone, Nankai Trough Accretionary, Trough Accretionary Prism, Destructive Earthquakes, High-resolution Seismic, Sediment Thickness, Subduction Zones, Designed, Effort, Has, ITZ, JAMSTEC, Japan, Marine, PTZ, Region, Regional, Seamounts, Subducting, Technology, Topography, Transects, Tsunami.

Advanced imaging techniques combined with in situ analyses used to assess diagenesis in benthic foraminifera
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Maureen E Raymo($297,274), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Chemical Composition, Environmental Parameters, Foraminifera Shells, Fossil Shells, Model Simulations, Alteration, Analytical, Apply, Benthic, Calcite, Climate, Column, Combined, Conventional, Domains, Earth, Electron, Level, Marine, Paleoclimate, Past, Planktic, Potential, Quality, Robust, Sea, Well-preserved.

Controls on Deep Water Ventilation and Red Sea Overflow Water Formation in the Red Sea
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Konrad A Hughen($284,786), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Cyclonic Gyre Circulation, Northern Red Sea, Coral Drill, Deep Ocean, Deepwater Formation, Ocean Circulation, Climate, Controlling, Global, Large-scale, Long-term, Mixing, RSOW, Regional, Surface, Temporal, Ventilation.

The Response of the Tropical Carbon Cycle to Post-glacial Hydroclimate Variations
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Valier Galy($445,712), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide, Organic Carbon Cycling, Terrestrial Organic Carbon, Ghg Emissions, Residence Time, Terrestrial Biosphere, Biospheric, Climate, Designed, Dynamics, Future, Has, Hydrologic, Mechanistic, Mitigate, Ocean, Past, Program, Sites, Temperature, Tropical.

Collaborative Research: Taking the reliability of Cenozoic boron isotope pH and pCO2 reconstructions to the next level
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Andrew Ridgwell($178,960), University of California-Riverside, Riverside
2. Baerbel Hoenisch($390,558), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Atmospheric Co2 Levels, Surface Ocean Acidity, Foraminifera Species, Aims, Alkalinity, Boron, Carbon, Chemistry, Climate, Deltab, Effect, Estimates, Extinct, Fossil, Future, Geochemical, Global, Information, Marine, Model, Modeling, Past, Pco, Reconstruct, Relative, Seawater, Seawater-ph, Shells, Shifts.

Assessing the effect of dissolution on key Pliocene Mg/Ca-based tropical temperature records
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Ana C Ravelo($112,563), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Climate Model Simulations, Carbonate Ion, Mgca-temperature Estimates, Temperature Estimates, Tropical Pacific, Account, Analyses, Bca, Calcium, Cold, Concentrations, Dissolution, Effect, Foraminifera, Mgca-temperature, ODP, Pliocene, Proxy, Ratio, Shells, Source, Temperatures, Time, Training, Warm, Water.

Collaborative Research: 3D onshore-offshore seismic investigation of Japan's megathrusts
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Daniel G Bassett($263,434), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Adrien Arnulf($106,706), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Densest Permanent Network, Nankai And Ne, 20-year Dataset, 3-d Images, Fault Surface, Ne Japan, Onshore Seismographs, Subduction Zones, Differences, Earthquake, Earthquakes, Energy, Forearc, Gt, Knowledge, Largest, Offshore, Onshore-offshore, Pacific, Passively, Plate, Produce, Resolution, Roughness, Seismic, Seismometers, Structure, Subducting, Tomographic, Zealand.

Assessing segment-scale compositional control over slow-spreading ridge morphology
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Lynne Elkins($278,905), University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln
Key terms: Crustal Construction, Mid-atlantic Ridge, Mid-ocean Ridges, Oceanic Crust, Slow-spreading Ridge, Characteristics, Faulting, Investigate, Mantle, Mid-atlantic, Mid-ocean, Principally, Rates, Seafloor, Segment, Slow-spreading, Underlying, Volcanic.

Fully three-dimensional numerical models for along-axis variations in magmatic and tectonic processes at slow-spreading mid-ocean ridges
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Eunseo Choi($179,333), University of Memphis, Memphis
Key terms: Diking Frequencies, Faulting Styles, Mid-ocean Ridges, Slow-spreading Mid-ocean, Controls, Explaining, Factors, Faults, Formation, Magma, Mantle, Mechanical, Mechanism, Method, Mid-ocean, Model, Modeling, Numerical, Occs, Rock, Seafloor, Slow-spreading, Three-dimensional.

EAGER: Quantification of Ocean Water Column Contributions to Bottom Pressure offshore Cascadia using Current and Pressure Recording Inverted Echo Sounders
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Meng Wei($99,989), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Bottom Pressure Recorders, Ocean Bottom Pressure, Water Column, Water-column Contributions, CPIES, Deformation, Deployed, Earthquakes, Estimate, Existing, Information, Instruments, Long-term, Measure, Model, Near, Oceanographic, Offshore, Oregon, Overlying, Sea, Seafloor, Signal, Subduction, Tectonic, Tsunamis, Water-column.

A Robust Test of the Milankovitch Cycle Hypothesis Predictions for Influencing Abyssal Hill Morphology: A Pilot Study
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. John A Goff($120,271), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Abyssal Hill, Abyssal Hills, Crustal Age, Mid-ocean Ridges, Milankovitch Cycles, Sea Level, Topographic Signal, Age-dependent, Central, Component, Earth, Evidence, Exists, Fault-generated, Flanks, Measuring, Methodology, Mid-ocean, Noise, Null, Orbit, Random, Regions, Scaling, Seafloor, Stacked, Topography, True, Volcanic, Volcanism.

How Important Were Mid-Ocean Ridge Processes in the Formation of Shatsky Rise?
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Jennifer E Georgen($40,154), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
Key terms: Junction Plate Boundary, Pacific-izanagi-farallon Triple Junction, Geochemical Heterogeneity, Mantle Plume, Pacific-izanagi-farallon Triple, Ridge-ridge-ridge Triple, Shatsky Rise, Spatial Dispersion, Three-dimensional Mantle, Compared, Flow, Formation, Geological, Geometry, Has, LIP, Magmatic, Melting, Million, Model, Modeling, Nature, Plates, Processes, Setting, Size, Submarine, Suggest, Tectonic, Three-dimensional, Upwelling, Volume, Was.

Collaborative Research: An Eocene perspective on future recovery rates of climate and ocean chemistry
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Richard E Zeebe($252,272), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. Baerbel Hoenisch($85,421), Columbia University, New York
3. James C Zachos($262,152), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Climate And Ocean, Climate-carbon Cycle, Natural Recovery, Ocean Acidification, Past Climate, Chemistry, Climate-carbon, Constrain, Eocene, Future, Hence, Insight, Processes, Surface.

The Volatile Contents of the Chile Ridge Mid-Ocean Ridge Basalts, Unraveling their Arc Signature
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Soumen Mallick($214,547), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Flow And Temperature, Generation And Evolution, Southeast Pacific Ocean, Chile Ridge, Geochemical Characteristics, Mantle Flow, Mass Spectrometry, Mid-ocean Ridge, Ridge Basalts, Slab Window, Upper Mantle, Woods Hole, Analytical, Arc, Basaltic, Brown, Carried, Composition, Compounds, Comprehensive, Constraints, Contributing, Distribution, Earth, End-member, Erupted, Eruption, Establish, Lavas, Magmatism, Mid-ocean, Minority, Models, Processes, Public, Radiogenic, Ratios, Reservoirs, Rock, Seafloor, Source, Students, Subducted, Subduction, Surface, Trace, Under-represented, Unique, Unravel, Volatile, Volatiles, Volcanic, World.

Collaborative Research: Rio Grande Rise: New Questions on Plume Dynamics, Atlantic Tectonic Evolution and an Important Window to the African LLSVP
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Anthony Koppers($440,367), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Cornelia Class($359,776), Columbia University, New York
3. William W Sager($124,981), University of Houston, Houston
Key terms: Deep Dense Mantle, Dense Mantle Zone, Low Shear Wave, Rio Grande Rise, Shear Wave Velocity, Wave Velocity Province, Mid-atlantic Ridge, Walvis Ridge, African, Close, Collected, Formed, History, Hotspot, Intra-plate, LLSVP, Mid-atlantic, Million, Plate, Plume, Rock, Tectonic, Time, Unique, Volcanic, Volcanism, Volume.

Analyses of New High Resolution MCS Data from Guaymas Basin, Gulf of California
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Daniel Lizarralde($66,916), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Igneous Sill Intrusion, International Ocean Discovery, Modern Day Climate, Ocean Discovery Program, Carbon Released, Guaymas Basin, Igneous Sills, Overlying Sediments, Seismic Velocity, Sill Thickness, Alteration, Ancient, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Aureoles, Available, Based, Drill, Drilling, Driven, Estimate, Global-scale, Has, High-resolution, Intruded, Long-streamer, Lost, Magmatic, Main, Means, Objective, Paleocenceeocene, Potential, Rapid, Regionally, Relevance, Seafloor, Sites, Subsurface, Thermal, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Coring in the Southwest Indian and Southern Oceans to examine climate driven changes in watermass paleoventilation, sources, and structure
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Elisabeth L Sikes($509,593), Rutgers University New Brunswick, New Brunswick
2. Ellen E Martin($321,013), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Boundaries And Properties, Circulation And Wind-driven, Southeast Indian Ocean, Southern Indian Ocean, Water Mass Boundaries, Atmospheric Circulation, Atmospheric Co2, Co2 Exchange, Critical Region, Deep Water, Ocean Circulation, South Atlantic, Southern Ocean, Water Masses, Atmosphere, Believed, Chemistry, Concentrations, Cores, Cruise, Depth, Glacial, Horizontal, Latitudinal, Mechanisms, Objective, Pacific, Past, Proxies, Sediment, Sequestering, Storage, Surface, Thermohaline, Transect, Transects, Ventilation, Vertical, Waters.

Collaborative Research: A community 3D seismic investigation of fault property controls on slow-slip along the Hikurangi megathrust
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: Marine Geology and Geophysics

1. Shuoshuo Han($521,890), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Slow Slip Earthquakes, 3d Seismic, Plate Boundary, Seismic Attributes, Seismic Imaging, Slip Behavior, Subduction Thrusts, Subduction Zone, Subduction Zones, Cascadia, Coast, Conditions, Critical, Damaging, Designed, Fault, Global, High-resolution, Hikurangi, Images, International, Langseth, Lead, Megathrust, Models, Shallow, Students, Zealand.

Next generation submersible flow cytometry for plankton studies: Extended dynamic range and orthogonal imaging
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Heidi M Sosik($790,189), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Larger Cells, Automated, Capabilities, Coastal, Detailed, Diversity, Enhancing, Flow, Human, Images, Instrument, Instruments, Light, Marine, Microscopic, Observations, Ocean, Phytoplankton, Plankton, Promote, Sets, Situ, Structure, Water.

Research Coordination Networks (RCN): Sustained Multidisciplinary Ocean Observations
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Jay Pearlman($493,098), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Ocean Observations, Dialogue, Effective, Observing, Require.

Collaborative Research: Imaging small-scale convection and structure of the mantle in the south Pacific: a US contribution to international collaboration PacificArray
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Goran Ekstrom($516,396), Columbia University, New York
2. Donald W Forsyth($177,139), Brown University, Providence
Key terms: Ocean Bottom, Oceanic Plates, Small-scale Convection, Advances, Arrays, Asthenosphere, Beneath, Body, Coverage, Deformation, Earthquakes, Gravity, International, Ma, Mantle, Motion, Pacific, Small-scale, Surface, Temperature, Thermal, Volcanism, Wave.

Collaborative Research: Imaging small-scale convection and structure of the mantle in the south Pacific: a US contribution to an international PacificArray
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: OCE SPECIAL PROGRAMS

1. Zachary C Eilon($357,265), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Ocean Bottom, Oceanic Plates, Small-scale Convection, Advances, Arrays, Asthenosphere, Beneath, Body, Coverage, Deformation, Earthquakes, Gravity, International, Ma, Mantle, Motion, Pacific, Small-scale, Surface, Temperature, Thermal, Volcanism, Wave.

Collaborative research: Quantifying the influence of nonconsumptive predator effects on prey population dynamics
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. David L Kimbro($629,392), Northeastern University, Boston
2. James W White($9,906), University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Wilmington
Key terms: Ces And Nces, Oyster Population Dynamics, Bigger Effect, Consumptive Effects, Environmental Gradients, Field Experiments, Marine Resource, Mathematical Models, Model Predictions, Prey Populations, Prey Species, Relative Importance, Shell Thickness, Accounting, Affect, Causing, Combining, Compared, Consumption, Experimental, Factors, Florida, Food, Gap, Growth, Investigate, Less, Long-term, Management, Multiple, Oysters, Partnership, Predator, Predators, Public, Recruitment, Reduces, Short-, Short-term, Students, Time.

Workshop on the future of coastal and estuarine modeling; June 2018; North Carolina State University
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Yinglong J Zhang($70,031), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Coastal And Estuarine, Users And Developers, Estuarine Models, Estuarine Scales, Model Performance, Model Users, Uncertainty Quantification, Accuracy, Advances, Approaches, Assess, Assimilation, Computational, Decades, Development, Focus, Implementation, Methods, Modeling, Nesting, Numerical, Ocean, Past, Processes, Seen, Strategies, Technologies, Unified, Unstructured, Workshop.

NSFGEO-NERC: Multiscale Stochastic Modeling and Analysis of the Ocean Circulation
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Mickael D Chekroun($599,989), University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Key terms: Development And Applications, Dynamical And Kinematical, Reduced-order Stochastic Models, Stochastic Flow Emulators, Mesoscale Eddies, Multiscale Flows, Multiscale Oceanic, Oceanic Models, Reduced Complexity, Reduced-order Stochastic, Reduction Methods, Turbulent Flows, Turbulent Oceanic, Aims, Capturing, Circulation, Currents, Dynamically, Empirical, Emulate, Extend, Hierarchy, Interactions, Motions, Properties, Resulting, Spatio-temporal, Statistical, Underlying.

Barriers to cross-shelf coral connectivity in the Florida Keys
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Mikhail V Matz($745,820), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Candidate Loci, Coral Populations, Coral Species, Divergent Selection, Genomic Signatures, Offshore Reefs, Public Outreach, Reef Tract, Action, Cross-shelf, Demonstrate, Divergence, Education, Estimates, Florida, Genetic, Genome, Genome-wide, Juveniles, Local, Nearshore, Ongoing, Quantitative, Regularly, Strength.

Collaborative Research: Mechanisms of resistance and resilience to system-wide loss of a keystone predator in an iconic intertidal community
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Bruce A Menge($699,593), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Tarik Gouhier($84,036), Northeastern University, Boston
3. Peter T Raimondi($692,888), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Sea Star Wasting, Star Wasting Disease, Alternative Predators, Devastated Populations, Ecosystem-level Effects, Graduate Students, Intertidal Ecosystems, Pisaster Ochraceus, West Coast, Activities, Biology, Compromise, Disturbance, Ecology, Ecosystem-level, Empirical, Experiments, Extent, Factors, Field, Health, Importance, Influence, Keystone, Lead, Marine, Mathematical, Model, Modeling, Modules, Outbreak, Pace, Predation, Prey, Processes, Public, Recovery, Resilience, Resistance, SSWD, Specifically, Structure, Undergraduate, Unprecedented, Workshops.

Collaborative Research: Management and Implementation of US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Gregory A Cutter($838,678), Old Dominion University Research Foundation, Norfolk
2. Karen L Casciotti($609,488), Stanford University, Stanford
3. Phoebe J Lam($502,169), University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz
Key terms: Conventional, Coordinate, Cruise, Dissolved, Distributions, Expedition, GEOTRACES, Global, Hydrographic, Infrastructure, Isotopes, Marine, Media, Mining, Pacific, Processes, Protocols, Sampling, Teis, Trace, Variety, Wide.

A Low-Power, Low-Cost Microbial Genetic Analyzer For Discovery and Monitoring of Ocean Microbes
Award Effective Date: 07/15/2017; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Shih-Hui Chao($976,210), Arizona State University, Tempe
Key terms: Dna And Rna, Marine Microbes, Microbial Abundance, Microfluidic Chip, Ocean Microbial, Single Microfluidic, Amplification, Autonomous, Biomass, Capabilities, Climate, Deployed, Design, Developed, Development, Diverse, Enable, Enabling, Engineers, Environment, Environmental, Experiments, Extraction, Function, Genetic, Hardware, Instruments, Isothermal, LAMP, Low, Measure, Monitoring, OMS, On-chip, Platforms, Power, Prototype, Reagents, STEM, Sampling, Society, Talent, Technologies, Technology, Unit.

The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Survey of the Plankton of the North Atlantic
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Peter H Wiebe($1,039,639), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Continuous Plankton Recorder, Nw Atlantic, Acidification, Analysis, Biodiversity, CPR, Climate, Commission, Ecosystem, Global, Highly, International, Long-term, Management, Marine, Observing, Ocean, Phytoplankton, Programs, Represent, Silks, Species, Standard, Survey, Surveys, Themes, USA, Zooplankton.

REU Site: University of California Santa Barbara's Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Ocean Biology
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: OCE-Ocean Sciences Research

1. Alice Nguyen($404,076), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Biological Concepts, Focus, Interaction, Marine, Program, REU, Students, UCSB.

Collaborative Research: Automated observations of phytoplankton communities from open water moorings
Award Effective Date: 01/15/2018; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Andrew D Barton($230,106), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Heidi M Sosik($69,815), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Imaging Flowcytobot, Ocean Mooring, Deployed, Diverse, EAGER, Global, Has, IFCB, Internet, Phytoplankton, Power.

EAGER - Integrating machine learning on autonomous platforms for target-tracking operations using stereo imagery
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Kakani K Young($323,007), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
Key terms: Vast And Incredibly, Ocean Involves, Ocean's Midwaters, Track Targets, Tracking Missions, Algorithms, Autonomous, Auvs, Development, Efforts, Explore, MBARI, Media, Oceans, Real-time, Region, Underwater, Variety, Vehicle, Vehicles.

Workshop: Community Input on Long-Term Deployments of Resident Autonomous Undersea Vehicles; University of Washington; April, 2018
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Aaron Marburg($49,979), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: R-AUV, Workshop.

ALOHA Cabled Observatory Continuing Operations and Maintenance
Award Effective Date: 12/01/2017; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Bruce M Howe($960,000), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Station Aloha, Water Column, ACO, Basic, Biological, Bottom, Cabled, Deepest, Deployed, HOT, Has, Hawaii, Infrastructure, Innovative, Long-term, Observations, Observatory, Ocean, Pressure, Site, Technology, Time, Was.

A Benthic Underwater Microscope with Pulse Amplitude Modulated Imaging Capability (BUMP)
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Jules S Jaffe($656,827), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Amplitude Modulated Imaging, Pulse Amplitude Modulated, Coral Reefs, Kelp Forests, Microscopic Level, Natural Environment, Allowing, Assessing, BUMP, Ecosystems, Energy, Field, Has, Health, Illumination, Implemented, Lab, Less, Light, Marine, Measure, Mm, Organisms, Performance, Photosynthetic, Physiological, Power, Processes, Transformation, Underwater, Units.

Advances in Seafloor Geodesy: Expanded Applications of Wave and Solar Powered Surface Vehicles
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. C. David Chadwell($246,974), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Deployed Offshore Sio, Sea Surface Vehicle, Subduction Zone Offshore, Collecting Gps-acoustic, Sea Floor, Shallow Water, Cost, Gps-acoustic, Lower, Motion, Past, Plate, Seafloor, Ships, Transponder, Tsunami, Upload.

Development of a large-aperture coherent hydrophone array, data processing and analysis software system for instantaneous wide-area passive acoustic monitoring of marine mammals
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Purnima R Makris($979,417), Northeastern University, Boston
Key terms: Coherent Hydrophone Array, Hydrophone Array Hardware, Marine Mammal Monitoring, Marine Mammal Vocalizations, Coherent Beamforming, Sound Sources, Acoustic, Aims, Continue, Detected, Detection, Discovery, Ecological, Exploration, Fisheries, Geophysical, High-resolution, Instantaneous, Large-scale, Man-made, Noise, Ocean, Operations, Opportunity, POAWRS, Real-time, Seismic, Sensing, Signal, Software, Sounds, Surveys, Technology, Training, Whale.

Development and Validation of a Submersible Oceanic Luminescent Analyzer of Reactive Intermediate Species (SOLARIS)
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Colleen Hansel($862,421), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Chemical Species, Deep Sea, Highly Sensitive, Hydrogen Peroxide, Reactive Chemicals, Ability, Analytical, Analyzer, Chemiluminescent, Comprise, Consumption, Designed, Development, Dynamics, Enable, Has, Health, Instrument, Integrated, Levels, Measuring, Mode, Modules, Ocean, Photodetection, Pumping, ROS, SOLARIS, Sensor, Short-lived, Situ, Submersible, Superoxide, Underwater, Validate, Water.

Collaborative Research: Miniature Low-Cost Vibration Tags and Computing Infrastructure for Identifying Marine Animal Sounds
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. David A Mann($332,139), Loggerhead Instruments, Sarasota
2. Holger Klinck($263,575), Cornell University, Ithaca
3. Aran Mooney($516,825), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Computing Infrastructure, Passive Acoustic, Sound Sources, Accelerometer, Animals, Biological, Enables, Fishes, Has, Inexpensive, Marine, Miniature, Online, Power, Raw, Sounds, Spawning, Storage, Tag, Tags.

Collaborative Research: A new system for air-sea CO2 flux measurements from moored and unmanned surface platforms
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Douglas Vandemark($274,200), University of New Hampshire, Durham
2. Scott D Miller($322,673), SUNY at Albany, Albany
Key terms: Measure Air-sea Co2, Spatial And Temporal, Air-sea Co2, Air-sea Interface, Co2 Flux, Direct Flux, Eddy Covariance, Gas Exchange, Measure Air-sea, Access, Accurate, Aims, Broader, Buoy-based, Buoys, Capabilities, Capability, Carbon, Conditions, Directly, Field, Future, Low-power, Magnitude, Ocean, Oceans, Performance, Policy, Potential, Processes, Range, Sensor.

Collaborative Research: Self-Calibrating pH Sensors for Autonomous Collection of Climate Quality Data
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Philip J Bresnahan($567,582), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
2. Yuichiro Takeshita($107,817), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
Key terms: Autonomous Ph, Climate Quality, Ph Sensor, Ph Sensors, Bottle, Collected, Coral, Datasets, Efforts, Field, Generate, Has, Involving, Programs, Protocols, Required, Situ, Validation.

Autonomous Systems for the Collection, in situ Preservation and Return of Microbial Samples from Aquatic Ecosystems
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Virginia P Edgcomb($1,205,556), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Helical Rotary, Sampling Platforms, Advances, Capabilities, Collected, Design, Development, Dynamics, Existing, Field, Filter, Flow, Has, Implemented, Instrumentation, Microbial, Situ, Surface, Technologies, Technology, Valve, Vehicles.

EAGER: Development of a Prototype 2D Acoustic Tomography System for Rapid Temperature Measurements in Diffuse Hydrothermal Effluent
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Michael J Anderson($51,826), Regents of the University of Idaho, Moscow
Key terms: Algebraic Reconstruction Technique, Diffuse Hydrothermal Venting, Acoustic Tomography, Anomalously Warm, Diffuse Fluids, Hydrothermal Circulation, Prototype Two-dimensional, Chemical, Chirp, Construction, Crust, Deep-sea, Development, Domain, Flux, Fluxes, Frequencies, Heat, Idaho, Measure, Methods, Porous, Pulse, Quantify, Ridges, Seafloor, Seawater, Square, Technologies, Temperature, Time, Transducer, Transducers, Travel, Travel-time, Two-dimensional, Upwelling, Vents, Volume.

Collaborative Research: Mesobot: a robot for investigating the ocean interior
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2017; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Kakani K Young($431,533), Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing
Key terms: Bubbles, Droplets, Features, Fish, Mesopelagic, Midwater, Ocean, Oceanographic, Particles, Processes, Program, Region, Robot, Sampling, Strongly, Targets, Zone.

Collaborative Research: Ultraviolet(UV)-MultiSpectral-Polarization 3D Imaging of the Underwater World
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2016; Program: OCEAN TECH & INTERDISC COORDIN

1. Viktor Gruev($404,268), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana
Key terms: 3d Map, Coral Reefs, Optical Characterization, Plastic Contaminants, Polarization Information, Temporal Resolution, Underwater Environments, Underwater World, Benthos, Biological, Biologically, Camouflage, Channels, Characteristics, Co-registered, Communication, Complete, Conservation, Device, Distinct, Features, Imager, Imaging, Low, Mapping, Maps, Measuring, Monitoring, Multispectral, Oil, Organisms, Overcome, Produce, Scanning, Simultaneous, Software, Spatial, VSLAM.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography/OI
Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Terry B Appelgate($1,356,951), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, Acquisition, NSF, Nsf-funded, Shared-use.

Oceanus Ocean Instrumentation - 2017
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Andrew W Woogen($40,399), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, NSF, Nsf-funded, Program, Shared-use.

2017 Oceanographic Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. David S Goldberg($91,780), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, NSF, Nsf-funded, Shared-use.

Oceanographic Instrumentation: Sea Education Association (SSV Corwith Cramer & SSV Robert C. Seamans)
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Paul S Joyce($16,462), Sea Education Association, Falmouth
Key terms: Limited, Nsf-funded, Panel, Program, Requests, SEA, Water.

University of Minnesota Duluth R/V Blue Heron Oceanographic Instrumentation 2017
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Richard D Ricketts($14,460), University of Minnesota Duluth, Duluth
Key terms: Rv Blue Heron, Lakes Observatory, Oceanographic Laboratory, Shared-use Instrumentation, Days, Minnesota, NSF, Nsf-funded, Shared-use, UNOLS, Vessel.

University of Georgia/RV Savannah Oceanographic Instrumentation
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Clark R Alexander($134,665), University of Georgia Research Foundation Inc, Athens
Key terms: Estuarine Environments, Oceanographic Instrumentation, Rv Savannah, Shared-use Instrumentation, Acquisition, Coastal, Days, Has, NSF, Nsf-funded, Shared-use, Skidaway, Vessel.

NSF INSTRUMENTATION CY17 DEERING
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2017; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Timothy W Deering($39,680), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, NSF, Nsf-funded, Shared-use.

Oregon State University/Marine Sediment Sampling Group Ocean Instrumentation: Acquisition of a replacement shipboard multisensor track for at-sea sediment physical properties scans
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2017; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. Joseph S Stoner($230,714), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, NSF, Nsf-funded, Shared-use.

Oceanographic Instrumentation - 2017
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTRUMENTATION

1. David C Fisichella($19,907), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Global Vessel, Rv Atlantis, Shared-use Instrumentation, Days, Freezer, NSF, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Scheduled, Shared-use.

Providing Self-recording Temperature and Attitude Loggers for Hydrothermal Vent Fluid Monitoring at Seafloor and Lacustrine Study Sites
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: OCEANOGRAPHIC TECHNICAL SERVCE

1. Daniel J Fornari($50,000), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Hydrothermal Vent Fluid, Vent Fluid Loggers, Mid-ocean Ridge, Facility, High-t, Mid-ocean, Model, Oceanographic.

2018 Ocean Mixing Gordon Research Conference
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2018; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jonathan D Nash($30,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Numerical Climate Models, Spatial And Temporal, Deep-ocean Mixing, Dynamical Insights, Global Circulation, Grc Format, Ocean Mixing, Turbulent Mixing, Budgets, Conference, Consequences, Critical, Deep-ocean, Direct, Distribution, Diversity, Field, Gordon, Has, Inferences, Interdisciplinary, Large-scale, Larger, Measure, Nutrient, Observations, Parameterizations, Physics, Regional, Societal, Variety.

Inter-hemispheric Water Exchange in the Indian Ocean: Discovering the Red Sea Overflow Water Pathways and Variability
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Viviane Vasconcellos de Menezes($415,314), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Red Sea Water, Temperature And Salinity, Global Oceans, Indian Ocean, Intermediate Circulation, Intermediate Water, Saline Water, Water Masses, Waters Enter, Western Australia, Climate, Depths, Dynamics, Investigate, Mechanisms, Observations, Outputs, Pathways, RSOW, Reaches, Spreading.

Local Generation of Nonlinear Internal Waves on the Continental Shelf: Beams to Modes
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Karl R Helfrich($690,421), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Beam-like Internal Tides, Principally Beam-like Internal, Shorter Nonlinear Waves, Beam-like Internal, Continental Slope, Internal Tidal, Internal Wave, Principally Beam-like, Propagate Horizontally, Solitary Waves, Coastal, Contribute, Dynamics, Emergence, Especially, Experimental, Forcing, GFD, Generated, Generation, Idealized, Interior, Laboratory, Mixing, Modal, Model, Modeling, Models, Ocean, Onto, Propagates, Propagating, Propagation, Properties, Shelf, Single, Structure, Subsequent, Topography, Transition, Vertical, Vertically, WHOI, Water.

Submesoscale Instabilities and Turbulence Across Oceans: Connecting Theory and Observations
Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sean Haney($258,254), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Linear Stability, Submesoscale Flows, Submesoscale Instabilities, Wide Range, Broad, Compared, Complex, Datasets, Developed, Development, Difficult, Directly, Forced, Global, Hand, Idealized, Instability, Mean, Model, Models, Multiple, Observations, Ocean, Oceanographic, Profiles, Substantial.

Collaborative Research: Isopycnal Spectra and Stirring on the Submesoscale and Finescale in the Upper Ocean
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Ren-Chieh Lien($1,177,691), University of Washington, Seattle
2. Eric Kunze($328,198), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Circulation Models, Isopycnal Stirring, Observational Constraints, Parameter Space, Scales Shorter, Tracer-gradient Spectra, Upper Ocean, Flows, Horizontal, Length, Observations, Processes, Resolve, Richardson, Rossby, Slope, Strain, Sub-inertial, Submesoscale, Theory, Tracer-gradient, Tracers, Water-mass, Wavenumber.

Oceanic Geostrophic Turbulence Inferred From Vertical Structure Observations
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Charles C Eriksen($1,337,802), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Bermuda Atlantic Time, Energy And Forward, Energy And Latitude, Exceeds Kinetic Energy, Cascade Transferring, Eddy Energy, Enstrophy Cascade, Forward Enstrophy, Geostrophic Eddies, Geostrophic Turbulence, Inverse Energy, Latitude Regimes, Potential Energy, Wavenumber Spectrum, BATS, Energetic, Observations, Ocean, Oceanic, Portions, Preliminary, Site, Sites, Spectra, Survey, Theories, Vertical, Vorticity, Weeks.

Collaborative Research: Submesoscale Dynamics over the Continental Shelf: Drivers and Implications for Across-Shelf Exchange
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Amala Mahadevan($795,707), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Pierre J Flament($354,682), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
3. Victoria C Futch($99,494), US Coast Guard Academy Grants Office Non Approp Funds Instrument, New London
Key terms: Across-shelf Exchange, Continental Shelf, England Shelf, Water Masses, Across-shelf, Coast, Coastal, Contribute, Current, Currents, Cycle, Drifters, Dynamical, Dynamics, Ecosystem, Eddies, Eddy, Field, Gain, Gradients, HF, Measure, Mechanisms, NES, Ocean, Processes, Radar, Resolution, Submesoscale, Surface, Transport, Undergraduate, Velocity.

Collaborative Research: Using Salinity Variance to Link Estuarine Mixing and Exchange Flow
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Wayne R Geyer($570,585), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Parker MacCready($468,978), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Horizontal And Vertical, Mixing And Exchange, Salinity Variance Balance, Estuarine Dynamics, Estuarine Geometry, Exchange Flow, Graduate Students, Integral Relationships, Realistic Models, Vertical Variance, Analysis, Apply, Class, Does, Estuaries, Framework, Has, Processes, Quantify, Regimes, Shear, Straining, Stratification, Tidal, Turbulence.

Collaborative Research: Improved observation and parameterization of bottom boundary layer turbulence and particle properties for sediment fate and transport modeling
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Stephen G Monismith($1,375,915), Stanford University, Stanford
Key terms: Fate And Transport, Particle Size Distributions, Boundary Layer, Erosion Rates, Fluid Dynamics, Laboratory Experiments, Les Model, Sediment Fate, Transport Models, Water Column, Bed, Biogeochemical, Bulk, Characteristics, Efforts, Environmental, Estuarine, Field, Flocculation, Forcing, In-situ, Instrumentation, Measure, Methods, Observations, Optical, Potential, Processes, Properties, Settling, Sites, Turbulence, Turbulent, USEPA, Wave-driven.

Transient Rip Current Dynamics: Laboratory Measurements and Modeling of Surfzone Vorticity
Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Nirnimesh Kumar($716,960), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Generation And Evolution, Surf Zone Eddies, Surf Zone Eddy, Transient Rip Currents, Two-dimensional Turbulence Box, Cross-shelf Exchange, Nearshore Region, Numerical Modeling, Short-crested Waves, Two-dimensional Turbulence, Coalescence, Cross-shelf, Developed, Dynamics, Essential, Human, Implications, Laboratory, Leading, Outreach, Range, Short-crested, Source, Transport, Treated.

A Lagrangian approach to quantifying isopycnal dispersion and the role of mixing in the Eastern North Atlantic Oxygen Minimum Zone
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Jaime B Palter($290,962), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
Key terms: Ocean Circulation Models, Atlantic Omz, Isopycnal Dispersion, Isopycnal Mixing, Collected, Critical, Does, Edge, Floats, Global, Intensity, LIDEX, Lagrangian, Layer, NSF, Nitrogen, Oceanographic, Omzs, Oxygen, Processes, Quantify, Rates, Regions, Representation, Resolution, Sensors, Successfully, Surfaces, Trajectories, Tropics.

Synthesis of Internal Wave and Turbulence Observations Across the Antarctic Circumpolar Current
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andreas Thurnherr($158,499), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Antarctic Circumpolar Current, Turbulence And Mixing, Ocean Circulation, Southern Ocean, ACC, Affects, Analyses, Analysis, Available, Based, Coefficients, Collected, Common, Context, Fine, Flow, Global, Internal-wave, Method, Observations, Oceanographic, Processes, Profiles, Region, Reveal, VKE.

Physical Oceanography Dissertation Symposia X and XI
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Christopher I Measures($330,750), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Pods Symposia, Academic, Activities, DISCO, Discussion, Field, Future, Held, Inter-disciplinary, Interactions, Invitees, Meeting, Oceanography, October, Participants, Pool, Presentations, Program, Sessions, Symposium, Th.

Impact of breaker type on wave dissipation on a natural beach
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Carmine C Chickadel($293,734), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Time And Space, Breaking Waves, Estimate Wave, Plunging Waves, Remote Sensing, Storm Surge, Surf Zone, Wave Breaking, Wave Dissipation, Wave Energy, Wave Forcing, Account, Activities, Aim, Analysis, Broad, Characterize, Coastal, Conditions, Has, Infrared, Lidar, Model, Modeling, Models, Nearshore, Ocean, Parameterizations, Processes, Range, Remotely.

Collaborative Research: Deep Circulation over the Flanks of a Mid-Ocean Ridge
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Andreas Thurnherr($118,202), Columbia University, New York
2. Raffaele Ferrari($500,078), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
3. James R Ledwell($129,794), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: 5-km Resolution, Brazil Basin, Buoyancy Flux, Buoyancy Fluxes, Deep Ocean, Earth's Climate, Rough Topography, Tracer Patch, Turbulent Buoyancy, Turbulent Diffusion, Abyssal, BBTRE, Bathymetry, Bottom, Canyon, Centered, Circulation, Collected, Detail, Evolution, Flanks, Flow, Flows, Forcing, Governing, Increased, Loss, Main, Observations, Picture, Poles, Processes, Profiles, Region, Sill, Simulate, Simulation, Strongly, Theoretical, Turbulence, Upwelling, Was, Water, Waves.

Proof of Concept: Exploiting Cooling Whitecap Foam to Quantify Wave Breaking Dissipation
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Carmine C Chickadel($324,629), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Breaking Wave, Energy Dissipation, Remote Sensing, Residual Foam, Surf Zone, Wave Breaking, Wind Speed, Bubbles, Concept, Contribute, Cooling, Dissipated, Gas, Generated, Has, Increased, Momentum, Ocean, Operational, Processes, Proof, Quantify, Signature, Students, Success, Surface, Surfactants, Thermal, Time, Undergraduates, Waves.

NSFGEO-NERC: Collaborative: Toward a New Picture of the Multifaceted Meteotsunami
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Chunyan Li($413,817), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
2. Alexandru Sheremet($467,979), University of Florida, Gainesville
Key terms: Bottom Friction, Early-warning Strategies, High-resolution Observations, Mt Early-warning, Mt Evolution, Numerical Models, Ability, Atmospheric, Coastal, Cycle, Developed, Early-warning, Generated, High-resolution, Mts, Nonlinear, Ocean, Predict, Process, Representation, Tested, Theoretical, Trapped, Tsunami, UK, Wave, Waves.

The Equatorial Line Observations Campaign: Physical Oceanography within the Maritime Continent
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Janet Sprintall($413,663), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cckw And Mjo, Upper Ocean Temperature, Weather And Climate, Atmospheric Convection, Field Campaign, Karimata Strait, Mc Region, Time Scales, Warm Layer, Air-sea, Atmosphere, Barrier, Benefit, Borneo, Characterize, Deployed, Development, Diurnal, ELO, Evolution, Forecasts, Global, Interactions, Involved, Models, Oceanography, Precipitation, Propagation, Shallow, Stratification.

Wave-topography interaction and impact on oceanic kinetic energy distribution
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Cimarron Wortham($190,525), NorthWest Research Associates, Incorporated, Seattle
Key terms: Turbulent Energy Cascade, Waves And Nonlinear, Mesoscale Eddies, Nonlinear Eddies, Phase Speed, Rossby Waves, Variable Topography, Vertical Structure, Available, Depth, Dynamics, EKE, Eddy, Global, Has, Linear, Model, Modeling, Motions, Ocean, Outreach, Propagation, Realistic, Shown, Surface, Topographic.

The Evaluation of Ocean Reanalyses in Their Determining Trends in Global Ocean Heat Content with a Novel Method
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Don P Chambers($311,100), University of South Florida, Tampa
Key terms: Global And Regional, Global Surface Warming, Assimilation Methods, Ocean Heat, Atmospheric, Based, Climate, Contributions, Dynamical, Errors, Estimates, Examining, Existing, Halo-steric, Interpret, Much-debated, OHC, ORA, Oceanic, Oras, Selected, Simple, Temperature, Variables.

Turbulence in tidal flow over rough three-dimensional topography
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sutanu Sarkar($512,184), University of California-San Diego, La Jolla
Key terms: Internal Gravity Waves, Nonlinear Internal Wave, Turbulent Motions, Complex, Conical, Contribute, Dynamics, Eddies, Environment, Features, Field, Flow, Flows, Generation, Length, Near, Numerical, Obstacle, Ocean, Relative, Ridges, Setting, Simplified, Simulations, Stratified, Submerged, Three-dimensional, Topographic, Topography, Turbulence, Underwater, Vortices, Wake, Waters.

Laboratory and Numerical Experiments on Ocean-scale Turbulent Stratified Mixing
Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Brian L White($690,123), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill
Key terms: Buoyancy Reynolds, Laboratory Experiments, Density, Efficiency, Energy, Flows, Fraction, Heat, Increasingly, Layers, Mechanism, Mixing, Models, Numerical, Ocean, Overturning, Process, Requires, Rest, Richardson, Sensors, Source, Stirring, Stratified, Water, Waters.

NSFGEO-NERC: Transfer of energy from the ocean mesoscale to the internal wave field by stimulated loss of balance
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. William R Young($564,802), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Mesoscale Energy Budget, Ocean Energy Budget, Internal Tides, Internal Wave, Internal Waves, Mesoscale Flow, Near-inertial Waves, Investigate, Loss, Model, Models, Ninertial, Numerical, Obtained, SLOB, Transfer.

Collaborative Research: The Norrona Project: An International Collaboration for Sustained Studies of the Meridional Overturning Circulation between Denmark, the Faroes and Iceland
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. H. Thomas Rossby($154,358), University of Rhode Island, Kingston
2. Charles N Flagg($138,495), SUNY at Stony Brook, Stony Brook
Key terms: Deep Gaps, Dense Water, Nordic Seas, North Atlantic, Time Scales, ADCP, Bubbles, Current, Flow, Has, Inflow, Institute, Instrument, Marine, Monitoring, Norröna, Northern, Operation, Outflow, Profiles, Ridge, Salty, Warm.

Dynamics of Shelfbreak Processes and Shelf/Slope Exchange South of New England
Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Glen G Gawarkiewicz($279,493), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Warm Core Rings, Commercial Fisheries, Continental Shelf, Pioneer Array, Shelf Water, Shelfslope Exchange, Time Scales, Wind Forcing, Changing, Cross-shelf, Developed, Dynamical, Frequency, Frontal, Hydrographic, Impingement, Inter-annual, Investigate, Larger, Meanders, Mechanisms, Observations, Ocean, Offshore, Process-oriented, Processes, Recently, Shelfbreak, Warming.

In a warming world, what drives cooling and freshening in the South Pacific Ocean?
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Sarah T Gille($504,008), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Cooling And Freshening, Heat And Freshwater, Upper Ocean Heat, Water Mass Transformation, Freshwater Content, Sea Ice, Sea-ice Cover, South Pacific, Southern Ocean, Air-sea, Atmosphere, Atmospheric, Carbon, Components, Describe, Export, Flux, Fluxes, Global, Meridional, Observed, Observing, Plans, Processes, Requirements, Sea-ice, Strongly, Trend.

Submesoscale dynamics in presence of freshwater forcing
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Annalisa Bracco($344,995), Georgia Tech Research Corporation, Atlanta
Key terms: Horizontal And Vertical, Lateral Density Gradients, Regional Ocean Model, Transport And Mixing, Atmospheric Forcing, Freshwater Fluxes, Freshwater Inputs, Freshwater Sources, Mekong Delta, Mixed Layer, Monsoonal Winds, Submesoscale Circulations, Submesoscale Dynamics, Vertical Mixing, Characterized, Coastal, Contribute, Contribution, Cycle, Existence, Factors, Flow, Flows, Forcings, Fronts, Furthermore, Hand, Interplay, Introduced, Investigated, Joint, Mixed-layer, Processes, Regions, Seasonal, Student, Surface, Tides, Topography, Varying, Vietnam.

Causes of climate extremes-generating ocean states
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Dong Eun Lee($797,848), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Central Equatorial Pacific, Equatorial Pacific Ocean, Climate Extremes, El Nino, Extreme Cold, Extremes-generating Ocean, Ocean Heat, Ocean Reanalyses, Sst Anomalies, Surface Fluxes, Task Force, Tropical Pacific, Adaptation, Advance, Analysis, Conditions, Contributions, Drought, Enabling, Extremes-generating, Floods, Indian, Mixing, Model, Nina, North, Oceanic, Oceans, Prediction, Societal, Upper, Vertical, Via, Was, Weather, Winters.

Collaborative Research: Resolving complex coastal flows via advances in high-frequency radar
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Anthony Kirincich($175,627), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Libe Washburn($551,879), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Hf Radar Observations, Surface Current Observations, Antenna Configuration, Coastal Currents, Coastal Dynamics, Coastal Flows, Coastal Ocean, Coastal Oceanography, Complex Coastal, Direction-finding Radar, Hf Radars, Oceanographic Radar, Reducing Errors, Spatial Resolution, Spatial Scales, Accurate, Algorithms, Buoyancy, Circulation, Developed, Direction-finding, Frequency, Heat, Lead, Temporal, Widely.

Collaborative Research: Hydraulic Control and Mixing of the Deep Ocean Flow through the Samoan Passage
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Glenn Carter($194,671), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
2. James B Girton($200,779), University of Washington, Seattle
3. Lawrence J Pratt($247,880), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
4. Matthew H Alford($714,202), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Fracture Zones, Hydraulic Criticality, Knowledge Gained, Overturning Circulation, Samoan Passage, Combination, Deep, Deployed, Flow, MOC, Mass, Mixing, Models, Modern, Monitoring, NSF, Observations, Observed, Observing, Ocean, Pacific, Passages, Previously, Sills, Theory, Transport, Various, Water, Weakening.

Observations and Modeling of the Transition Layer
Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Eric D'Asaro($1,759,562), University of Washington, Seattle
Key terms: Mixing And Entrainment, Shear And Stratification, Turbulence And Mixing, Upper Ocean Parameterizations, Waves And Instabilities, Mean Shear, Mixed Layer, Ml Turbulence, Stratification Profiles, Biological, Climate, Combine, Controlling, Current, Depth, Describe, Existing, Floats, Fluxes, Forced, Forcing, Heat, High-resolution, Internal, LES, Lagrangian, Methods, Models, Nutrients, Physics, Structure, Surface, TL, Theoretical.

2017 Coastal Ocean Dynamics Gordon Research Conference and Gordon Research Seminar
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. John A Barth($25,000), Gordon Research Conferences, East Greenwich
Key terms: Coastal Ocean Dynamics, Federal And International, Ocean Circulation, Ocean Modeling, Academic, Advances, Assimilation, Based, Brings, Broader, Build, Challenges, Conference, Diverse, Exchange, GRC, Geographic, Gordon, Marine, Opportunities, Participants, Prediction, Processes, Regions, Seminar, Share, Students, Water, Zone.

Collaborative Research: The impact of climate change on the physics and biology of the ocean on scales down to the submesoscale
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Frank Bryan($230,653), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
2. Kelvin J Richards($786,292), University of Hawaii, Honolulu
Key terms: Warmer Climate Conditions, Future Studies, Submesoscale Activity, Submesoscale Dynamics, Upper Ocean, Biogeochemical, Biogeochemistry, Carbon, Constraint, Degree, Design, Determined, Eddy-resolving, Exchange, Experiments, Fluxes, Forcing, Framework, Function, Global, Globally, Heat, High-resolution, Lessened, Mechanisms, Model, Models, Numerical, Physics, Present-day, Processes, Projections, Regions, Rotation, Vertical, Warming.

Global Dynamics Approach to Gap Leaping and Loop Current Systems
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Joseph J Kuehl($296,133), Baylor University, Waco
Key terms: Cusp Catastrophe, Global Dynamical, Hurricane Intensity, Laboratory Experiments, Loop Current, Loop Currents, Semi-enclosed Basins, Vorticity Constraints, Approach, Broadly, Circulation, Climate, Development, Dynamics, Eddy, Education, Follows, Formulation, Framework, Gulf, Inertia, Influence, Inland, Local, Mexico, Multiple, Ocean, Oceanographic, Population, Realistic, Semi-enclosed, Student, Transport.

Have large scale river plumes and coastal circulation patterns been fundamentally altered by historic estuary outlet modifications?
Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. David A Jay($299,500), Portland State University, Portland
Key terms: Columbia River Estuary, Depth And Width, Historical And Modern, Lower Columbia River, Coastal Ocean, Continental Shelf, Plume Structure, River Flow, River Outlets, River Plume, River Plumes, Altered, CRP, Circulation, Conditions, Control, Forcing, Geometry, Has, LCRE, Mouth, Nearly, Numerical, Nutrients, Outflow, Processes, Stratified, Template, Thru, Transports, Winds.

Investigation of Ningaloo Nino - The Role of Madden-Julian Oscillation and Leeuwin Current Variability
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Weiqing Han($295,437), University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder
Key terms: Southeast Indian Ocean, Climate Prediction, Leeuwin Current, Ningaloo Niño, Ningaloo Niñoniña, Ogcm Experiments, Remote Forcing, Rossby Waves, West Coast, Atmospheric, Australia, Circulation, Circulations, Contribute, Development, Extreme, Marine, Model, Observations, Oceanic, Pacific, Processes, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Investigation of Ningaloo Nino: The role of Madden-Julian Oscillation and Leeuwin current variability
Award Effective Date: 02/15/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Toshiaki Shinoda($331,585), Texas A&M University Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi
Key terms: Southeast Indian Ocean, Climate Prediction, Leeuwin Current, Ningaloo Niño, Ningaloo Niñoniña, Ogcm Experiments, Remote Forcing, Rossby Waves, West Coast, Atmospheric, Australia, Circulation, Circulations, Contribute, Development, Extreme, Marine, Model, Observations, Oceanic, Pacific, Processes, Warming.

Collaborative Research: Submarine Melting and Freshwater Export in Greenland's Glacial Fjords: The Role of Subglacial Discharge, Fjord Topography and Shelf Properties
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Patrick Heimbach($326,545), University of Texas at Austin, Austin
Key terms: Experiments And High-resolution, High-resolution Numerical Simulations, Magnitude And Spatial, Sheet And Climate, Size And Topography, Climate Models, Continental Shelf, Continental Shelves, Dominant Controls, Fjord Size, Freshwater Export, High-resolution Numerical, Ice Sheet, International Experts, Laboratory Experiments, Sea Level, Spatial Distribution, Subglacial Discharge, Submarine Melt, Submarine Melting, Analysis, Carried, Circulation, Complementary, Contribute, Disciplines, Dynamical, Existing, Fjords, Function, Glacier, Glaciers, Greenland, Greenlands, Has, Interactions, Involves, Large-scale, Margins, Media, Ocean, Parameterizations, Presence, Rise, Sill, Specific, Stratification, Summer.

Sloping boundary layers in the deep ocean: using three-dimensional numerical simulations to help interpret one-dimensional observations
Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Kraig Winters($424,381), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Comparatively Quiescent Interior, Quiescent Interior Basin, Boundary Layers, Field Observations, Collaborations, Disseminated, Dynamics, Estimates, High-resolution, Influence, Insight, Interact, Large-scale, Mixing, Ocean, Outreach, Particular, Sloping, Thorpe, Topography, Turbulence.

Collaborative Research: Circulation and mixing in a coastally trapped river plume
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: PHYSICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

1. Nicholas J Nidzieko($11,657), University of California-Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara
Key terms: Comprehensive Field Program, Mixing And Circulation, Buoyant Coastal, Coastal Current, Downwelling Conditions, Mechanisms Responsible, Nose Region, Numerical Models, Ooi Epe, Plume Propagation, Quantify Mixing, River Plume, Ambient, Broadly, Chesapeake, Currents, Detailed, Dominant, Dynamics, Edge, Education, Gravity, Importance, Nsf-funded, Objectives, Observations, Ocean, Online, Plumes, Relative, Resolution, River-derived, Rutgers, Shear, Stratification, Students, Teaching, Undergraduate, Undergraduates, Unprecedented, Waves, Wind, Winds.

Construction of Up to Three Regional Class Research Vessels (RCRVs) - Phases III & IV
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: REGIONAL RESEARCH VESSELS

1. Demian A Bailey($391,476,851), Oregon State University, Corvallis
Key terms: Regional Class, Nsfs, RCRV.

Coastal SEES Collaborative Research: Integration of human behavior and perception into a risk-based microbial water quality management approach
Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: SEES Coastal

1. Maryann R Cairns($499,998), Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Key terms: Coastal Water Quality, Microbial Risk Assessment, Microbial Water Quality, Quantitative Microbial Risk, Water Quality Management, Health Risks, Human Health, Public Health, Risk Assessments, Water Management, Approach, Approaches, Beach, Holistic, Identifying, Illness, Individuals, Interventions, Local, Pathogens, People, Play, Polluted, Practices, Societal, Stakeholders, Students, Wastewater, Worldwide.

Coastal SEES Collaborative Research: Climate change impacts on the sustainability of key fisheries of the California Current System
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2016; Program: SEES Hazards

1. Junjie Zhang($361,075), Duke University, Durham
Key terms: Fish Populations, Fisheries Scientists, Resource Management, Social Scientists, Behavior, California, Climate, Coastal, Economists, Fishers, Fishing, Lobster, Modeling, Ocean, Oceanographers, Sardine, Scenarios, Squid.

IEDA 2016-2021: Operation of a Multi-Disciplinary Data Facility for the Earth Science Community
Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: SEES Ship Operations

1. Stephen M Richard($7,359,917), Columbia University, New York
Key terms: Discovery And Access, Global Seafloor Topography, Management And Curation, Broader Impacts, Discovery Tools, Public Access, Alliance, Available, Combine, Continent, Datasets, Ensure, Exploration, Facility, Faculty, File-based, Focus, Geochemical, Geochemistry, Geoscience, Happen, IEDA, Increasingly, Information, Interdisciplinary, Legacy, Linked, Map-based, Marine, Metadata, Nsf-funded, Practices, Processes, Promoting, Repositories, Reuse, Sediment, Services, Shared, Software, Solid-earth, Students, Submission, Surface, Training, Variety, Web.

Collaborative EAGER project: Early Career Seismic Chief Scientist Training Cruise
Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: SHIP OPERATIONS

1. Anne M Tréhu($68,102), Oregon State University, Corvallis
2. Masako Tominaga($88,997), Texas A&M University, College Station
Key terms: Continental Margin, Marine Seismology, Training Cruise, Training Program, Acquired, Active, Activities, Archived, Coast, Demonstrate, Experience, Immediately, MCS, MSQ, Participants, Plan, Pre-cruise, Prior, Regions, Seismic, Selected, Software, Source, Survey, UNOLS, Value, Variety, Via, Webinars, Wide, Workshop.

Ship Operations - R/V SALLY RIDE Cy 17
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2017; Program: SHIP OPERATIONS

1. Terry B Appelgate($1,880,260), University of California-San Diego Scripps Inst of Oceanography, La Jolla
Key terms: Broader Impacts, Intellectual Merit, Ocean Observing, Sally Ride, Shared-use Facility, Undergraduate Students, Aboard, Approach, Board, Collaborative, Contributes, Critical, Days, Education, Enables, Experience, Graduate, Infrastructure, Instruction, K-, Maintenance, Marine, Missions, Nsfs, Oceanography, Operation, Operations, Program, Programs, SIO, Scripps, Sea, Shared-use, Shipboard, Sios, Training, UNOLS, Vessel.

2017 Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment R/V Atlantic Explorer
Award Effective Date: 06/15/2017; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Quentin Lewis($90,421), Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences (BIOS), Inc., St. George'S
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, NSF, Nsf-funded, Shared-use.

NSF Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment CY17 SWALLOW
Award Effective Date: 04/15/2017; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Jon Swallow($242,255), University of Delaware, Newark
Key terms: Rv Hugh, Sailing Schedule, Shared-use Instrumentation, Coastal, Days, Delaware, Equipment, NSF, Nsf-funded, Operated, Shared-use, Sharp, Shipboard, Vessel.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment: Oceanographic Cable
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Richard P Trask($2,733,768), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
Key terms: Shared-use Instrumentation, NSF, Nsf-funded, Oceanographic, Shared-use, UNOLS.

Shipboard Scientific Support Equipment: Sea Education Association (SSV Corwith Cramer & SSV Robert C. Seamans
Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: SHIPBOARD SCIENTIFIC SUPP EQUI

1. Paul S Joyce($19,465), Sea Education Association, Falmouth
Key terms: Overboarding Sheaves, Has, Items, Load, Panel, Program, Purchase, SEA, Top, Was.

EASM-3: Collaborative Research: Quantifying Predictability Limits, Uncertainties, Mechanisms, and Regional Impacts of Pacific Decadal Climate Variability
Award Effective Date: 09/01/2014; Program: Sustainability Resrch Networks

1. Frank Bryan($447,465), University Corporation For Atmospheric Res, Boulder
Key terms: Decadal Climate, Pacific Decadal, Regional Coupled, Regional Impacts, Educational, Flows, Focuses, Influence, Limits, Long-term, Mechanisms, Models, Ocean, Practical, Predictability, Predictions, Skill, Statistical, Students, Temperatures, Timescales, Tools, Uncertainties, Variables.

Collaborative Research: EAGER: Salinity-based selection between sister clades of abundant coastal bacterioplankton
Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Systems and Synthetic Biology

1. Elizabeth B Kujawinski($121,177), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole
2. Cameron Thrash($161,851), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge
Key terms: Salt And Freshwater, Abundant Coastal, Coastal Bacterioplankton, Coastal Salinity, Evolutionary Transition, Freshman Biology, Freshwater Environments, Habitat Range, Ionic Strength, Mcure Sections, Adaptations, Affect, Alterations, Aquatic, Biogeochemical, Biological, Carbon, Clade, Differences, Directorate, Division, Genomic, Has, Ii, Iiia, Inhabit, Isolates, LD, Marine, Mechanisms, Metabolic, Microbial, Microorganisms, Model, Nature, Organisms, Physiological, Regulatory, Relative, SAR, Salt-, Sister, Students, Taxa.

NSF-GEO-OCE Awards for 2017

Collaborative Research: A field and laboratory study of the melting processes of icebergs in a Greenland fjord Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: ANS-Arctic Natural Sciences

Circulation of the Ross Gyre Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: ANT Ocean & Atmos Sciences

The Cost of A New Fur Coat: Interactions between Molt and Reproduction in Weddell Seals Award Effective Date: 08/01/2013; Program: ANT Organisms & Ecosystems

Autonomous and Lagrangian Platforms and Sensors: A Scientific and Technical Review Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: AON-Arctic Observing Network

Collaborative Research: the impact of symbiont-larval interactions on species distributions across southwestern Pacific hydrothermal vents Award Effective Date: 09/01/2018; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

2018 Ocean Global Change Biology GRC/GRS Award Effective Date: 03/15/2018; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Impact of the Amazon River Plume on Nitrogen Availability and Planktonic Food Web Dynamics in the Western Tropical North Atlantic Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: The tropicalization of Western Atlantic seagrass beds Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Microbial activity in the crustal deep biosphere Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Proposal: Selection and Genetic Succession in the Intertidal -- Population Genomics of Pisaster ochraceus During a Wasting Disease Outbreak and its Aftermath Award Effective Date: 12/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Evaluating how abalone populations in the California Current are structured by the interplay of large-scale oceanographic forcing and nearshore variability Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Signature exometabolomes of Caribbean corals and influences on reef picoplankton Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Predicting the global location of heat tolerant corals: Palau patch reefs as a general model Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Mesozooplankton food webs in intermittent upwelling systems: An overlooked link in a productive ocean Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Shelfbreak frontal dynamics: mechanisms of upwelling, net community production, and ecological implications Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

LTER: Resilience in the Environmental Mosaic of the Northern Gulf of Alaska (NGA) Shelf Ecosystem Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Context-dependency of top-down vs. bottom-up effects of herbivores on marine primary producers Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EAGER: Novel genome-based method to measure taxon-specific phytoplankton growth rates in natural communities Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Unraveling the complex interactions of host-virus interactions on marine microbial physiology Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Quantifying Temperature Dependence In Growth & Grazing Rates of Planktonic Herbivores Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

LTER: Linking Pelagic Community Structure with Ecosystem Dynamics and Production Regimes on the Changing Northeast US Shelf Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Skeletal Records of Coral Reef Beaching in the Central Equatorial Pacific Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Effects of Changing Temperature on the Gulf of Alaska Ecosystem Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Protistan, prokaryotic, and viral processes at the San Pedro Ocean Time-series Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

2018 Mesophotic Coral Reef Ecosystems Gordon Research Conference Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

The Role of Temperature in Regulating Herbivory and Algal Biomass in Upwelling Systems Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: A multidimensional approach to understanding microbial carbon cycling beneath the seafloor during cool hydrothermal circulation Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative research: Variation in life history and connectivity as drivers of pathogen-host dynamics and genetic structure in a trans-hemispheric pathosystem Award Effective Date: 07/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Effects of physical environmental conditions on the species distribution and composition of marine fish and invertebrates along the Texas coast Award Effective Date: 06/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

EAGER: A Saturation Approach to Microzooplankton Grazing Rate Determination Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Microbial interactions on particulate organic matter: from community structure to function Award Effective Date: 05/15/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Regulation of plankton and nutrient dynamics by hydrodynamics and profundal filter feeders Award Effective Date: 05/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

The energetic assembly of biological communities: a test with deep-sea woodfalls Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Orientation of elongate diatoms as a strategy for light harvesting Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Adjustment of western Pacific Ocean coral reefs to sea-level rise and ocean warming Award Effective Date: 04/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Aggregation of Marine Picoplankton Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Evolutionary Responses to Global Changes in Salinity and Temperature Award Effective Date: 03/15/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Iron and phosphorus balanced limitation of nitrogen fixation in the oligotrophic ocean Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Causes and consequences of hypoxia and pH impacts on zooplankton: Linking movement behavior to vertical distribution. Award Effective Date: 03/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Immunity to Community: Can Quantifying Immune Traits Inform Reef Community Structure? Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Delineating The Microbial Diversity and Cross-domain Interactions in The Uncharted Subseafloor Lower Crust Using Meta-omics and Culturing Approaches Award Effective Date: 02/01/2017; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: Gene content, gene expression, and physiology in mesopelagic ammonia-oxidizing archaea Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research: New Approaches to New Production Award Effective Date: 07/01/2016; Program: BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY

Collaborative Research - COSEE Florida: Water as Habitat Award Effective Date: 12/09/2016; Program: CENTRES FOR OCEAN SCI EDU EXCE

A Stochastic Approach to Representing Unresolved Mesoscales in Ocean Circulation Models Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: CR, Earth System Models

Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES PMT: Sources and Rates of Trace Element and Isotope Cycling Derived from the Radium Quartet Award Effective Date: 02/01/2018; Program: Chemical Oceanography

The role of heterotrophic bacteria in protecting cyanobacteria from hydrogen peroxide in coastal systems. Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Chemical Oceanography

GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect: Measurement of chlorofluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Development of low Nitrogen:Phosphorus ratios in the euphotic zone - the Phosphorus side of the story Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Trace Element Organic Speciation along the US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES PMT: Investigating geochemical tracers of the Pacific nitrogen cycle and budget Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Groundwater sources of "new" N for benthic microalgal production in the South Atlantic Bight Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Chemical Oceanography

U.S. GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect: Tracing Basin-scale Nutrient Cycling and Carbon Export with Dissolved and Particulate Barium-isotopic Distributions Award Effective Date: 01/01/2018; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect: Sources and Sinks of Neodymium Isotopes and Rare Earth Elements Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

US GEOTRACES PMT: Cobalt Biogeochemical Cycling and Connections to Metalloenzymes in the Pacific Ocean Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: U.S. GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect: Thorium-232, Thorium-231 and Protactinium-231 as tracers of trace element supply and removal Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: U.S. GEOTRACES PMT: Dissolved trace metal distributions and size partitioning Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

US GEOTRACES PMT: Shipboard determination of key dissolved trace elements Award Effective Date: 11/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

US GEOTRACES PMT: the geochemistry of size-fractionated suspended particles collected by in-situ filtration Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect: Determination of the air-sea exchange of inorganic and methylated mercury in the anthropogenically-impacted and remote Pacific Ocean Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Mechanisms and Controls of Nitrous Oxide Production in the Eastern Tropical North Pacific Ocean Award Effective Date: 10/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Lead-210 and Polonium-210 as tracers for scavenging and export: GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Section Award Effective Date: 09/15/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: NSFGEO-NERC: A Thermodynamic Chemical Speciation Model for the Oceans, Seas, and Estuaries Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Quantifying Upper Ocean Export and Remineralization of Bioactive and Particle Reactive Trace Elements along the US GEOTRACES Tahiti to Alaska Transect Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Assessing the role of compound-specific phosphorus hydrolase transformations in the marine phosphorus cycle Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

A mechanistic microbial underpinning for the size-reactivity continuum of dissolved organic carbon degradation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: RUI: Building a mechanistic understanding of water column chemistry alteration by kelp forests: emerging contributions of foundation species Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: Combining Theory and Observations to Constrain Global Ocean Deoxygenation Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

The Biological Pump in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific: in situ measurements of Oxygen and Nitrate Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Dissertations Symposium in Chemical Oceanography XXVI and XXVII Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

US GEOTRACES PMT: Rare earth elements, gallium, barium, and methane as indicators of internal cycling and input processes Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Ecosystem-scale responses of coupled carbon and nutrient cycles to dramatic shifts in benthic communities: The Upper Great Lakes Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Investigating the contribution of carotenoid degradation products to refractory dissolved organic matter (DOM) Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect: Measurement of Beryllium-7 as a Tracer of Upper Ocean Processes Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Operation of a Community Marine-Atmospheric Sampling Facility at Tudor Hill, Bermuda Award Effective Date: 09/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative research: US GEOTRACES PMT: Trace-metal concentrations and stable isotopes in the North Pacific Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

US GEOTRACES PMT: hydrogen sulfide as a strong ligand affecting trace metal cycling Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Coupling of carbonate cycling and redox reactions in the bioturbated zone of marine sediments Award Effective Date: 08/15/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography

Collaborative Research: US GEOTRACES PMT: Pb and Cr isotopes Award Effective Date: 08/01/2017; Program: Chemical Oceanography